Flood-control structure
The crossword clue "Flood-control structure" is answered by LEVEE, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LEVEE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEVEE answer page.
Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 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.
- REXTIONDAM (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for LEVEE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LEVEE, most used first.
- Embankment - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
- Flood barrier - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- River embankment - used 38 times, most recently in 2020
- Flood preventer - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Flood protection - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Quay. - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
- Dike - used 20 times, most recently in 2014
- Flood stopper - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Reception - used 13 times, most recently in 1999
- Water barrier - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Flood embankment - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- River barrier - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- River's flood barrier - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Dike's kin - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ... " ("American Pie" lyric) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Mississippi sight - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Bank manager? - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Bank security feature - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Flood control - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Flood blocker - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Mississippi restraint - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
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.
- Tidal flood - EAGRE, used 48 times
- Brings under control - TAMES, used 42 times
- Brought under control - TAMED, used 41 times
- Prefix with "red" or "structure" - INFRA, used 32 times
- Prefix with structure - INFRA, used 27 times
- Flood - SPATE, used 25 times
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