Sandy soil

The answer

LOAM

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

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LOAM

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

• Rich soil - used 180 times, most recently in 2026
• Good earth - used 72 times, most recently in 2021
• Fertile soil - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Good soil - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• The good earth? - used 20 times, most recently in 2015
• Clay-rich soil - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Potting soil - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Rich earth - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Topsoil - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Good garden soil - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Soil - used 10 times, most recently in 1980
• Friable soil - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Garden soil - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Clayey soil - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Farm soil - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Rich, dark soil - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Arable soil - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• Soil - DIRT, used 53 times
• Garden soil - DIRT, used 25 times
• Sandy golf hazard - TRAP, used 22 times
• Work the soil - TILL, used 19 times
• Soil: Prefix - AGRO, used 18 times
• Crumbly soil - MARL, used 17 times

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