Gin and tonic garnish

The answer

LIME

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIME answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LIME

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

• Citrus fruit - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Green citrus fruit - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Margarita garnish - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
• Gimlet garnish - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Green fruit - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Key ___ pie - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Green shade - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Shade of green - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Fruit. - used 20 times, most recently in 1996
• Rickey flavor - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Vitamin C source - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• Green hue - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Calcium oxide - used 12 times, most recently in 2002
• Cocktail garnish - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Citrus flavor - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Gimlet flavoring - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Rickey ingredient - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Drink garnish - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Whitewash ingredient - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Candy flavor. - used 8 times, most recently in 1968
• Green garnish - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Lawn application - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Rickey flavoring - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Soil additive - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Corona garnish - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Key fruit - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Margarita ingredient - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Sherbet flavor - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Ade flavor - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Bar fruit - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Bar garnish - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Cement ingredient - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Key ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Key pie ingredient - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Mortar ingredient - used 6 times, most recently in 2004

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• Facts and figures - DATA, used 223 times

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