Fine cotton thread
The crossword clue "Fine cotton thread" is answered by LISLE, a 5-letter entry. Used 25 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
LISLE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LISLE answer page.
Used 25 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LISLE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LISLE, most used first.
- Cotton thread - used 75 times, most recently in 2025
- Hosiery thread - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Strong cotton thread - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Thread - used 23 times, most recently in 1997
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.
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- Fine-tune - TWEAK, used 54 times
- Fine fiddle - AMATI, used 41 times
- Fine sprays - MISTS, used 40 times
- Fine dinnerware - CHINA, used 28 times
- Fine fiddle - STRAD, used 27 times
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