Piece of cake?

The answer

LAYER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LAYER answer page.

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• SNAP (122 uses in xd)
• EASY (109 uses in xd)
• CINCH (29 uses in xd)
• NOSWEAT (28 uses in xd)
• TIER (25 uses in xd)

Other clues for LAYER

Every other clue in this collection answered by LAYER, most used first.

• Stratum - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Hen - used 21 times, most recently in 2006
• Tier - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Coat of paint - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Cake tier - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of cake - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
• Cake section - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Cake part - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Cake unit - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Cake feature - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Ply - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Seven-__ cake - used 7 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Rich cake - TORTE, used 234 times
• Museum piece - RELIC, used 100 times
• Chopin piece - ETUDE, used 92 times
• Opinion piece - ESSAY, used 88 times
• Practice piece - ETUDE, used 80 times
• Piano practice piece - ETUDE, used 78 times

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