Metallic cloth
The crossword clue "Metallic cloth" is answered by LAME, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LAME
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LAME answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LAME
Every other clue in this collection answered by LAME, most used first.
- Weak, as an excuse - used 47 times, most recently in 2022
- Metallic fabric - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some excuses - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Poor, as an excuse - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Unconvincing - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Hobbling - used 31 times, most recently in 2021
- Kind of duck - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
- Poor, as excuses go - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
- Flimsy, as an excuse - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Ineffectual - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Shiny fabric - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Rich fabric. - used 17 times, most recently in 2010
- Brocaded fabric - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ duck. - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Fabric with metallic threads - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Like a poor excuse - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Limping - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- Unconvincing, as an excuse - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Fancy fabric - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Kind of excuse - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
- Glittery fabric - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Shimmery fabric - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Cloth of gold. - used 10 times, most recently in 1991
- Feeble - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
- Flimsy - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Weak - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Decidedly uncool - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Fancy fabric with metallic threads - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Halt - used 8 times, most recently in 1996
- Hobble - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Inadequate - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
- Pathetic - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Poor, as excuses - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Exhibiting a limp - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Feeble, as an excuse - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Gold fabric - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Hobbled - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Type of duck - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Uncool - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Glittery material - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Hardly believable - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Type of excuse - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Not of the cloth - LAIC, used 76 times
- Metallic rocks - ORES, used 70 times
- Bark cloth - TAPA, used 28 times
- Cut from the same cloth - AKIN, used 26 times
- Kind of cloth - LOIN, used 26 times
- Metallic element - ZINC, used 15 times
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