Sort of shortening
The crossword clue "Sort of shortening" is answered by LARD, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LARD
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LARD answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LARD
Every other clue in this collection answered by LARD, most used first.
- Cooking fat - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
- Shortening - used 49 times, most recently in 2023
- Frying medium - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Fat - used 39 times, most recently in 2015
- Hog fat - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Animal fat - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Pie crust ingredient - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Enrich - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
- Pig fat - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Piecrust ingredient - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Fat in a can - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Pork fat - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Crisco alternative - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Fat stuff - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Kitchen fat - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Rendered fat - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Chip-making supply - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Cook's canful - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Cooking aid - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
- Enrich, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Fat for frying - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Frying fat - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Cooking grease - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Embellish - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Fat for cooking - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Fat used in baking - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Grease - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Hog product - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Pig product - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- List-shortening abbr. - ETAL, used 87 times
- Sort - TYPE, used 64 times
- Manipulative sort - USER, used 57 times
- Active sort - DOER, used 43 times
- Uppity sort - SNOB, used 33 times
- Uncool sort - NERD, used 32 times
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