Can cover

The answer

LID

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LID answer page.

Used 20 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LID

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

• Cover - used 212 times, most recently in 2026
• Top - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Pot top - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Topper - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Pot part - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Pot cover - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Tupperware top - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Cap - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• "Put a ___ on it!" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Jar part - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Jar top - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Tupperware topper - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Box top - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Jack-in-the-box part - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Jar cover - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Jar topper - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• It may be flipped - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Tupperware piece - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Container cover - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Coffee-to-go need - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Eye protector - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Pot topper - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Can top - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Ceiling - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Chapeau - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Eye cover - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Hat, slangily - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Jack-in-the-box top - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Coffee-to-go topper - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Pot's top - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Something to flip - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Travel mug part - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Hat, in slang - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Operculum - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Tupperware cover - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Upper limit - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Hat - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Hat, informally - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Can. neighbor - USA, used 96 times
• Can material - TIN, used 69 times
• Can. province - ONT, used 55 times
• You can dig it - ORE, used 49 times
• Can - AXE, used 46 times
• Ground cover - SOD, used 46 times

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