Fertile loam
The crossword clue "Fertile loam" is answered by LOESS, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LOESS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOESS answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LOESS
Every other clue in this collection answered by LOESS, most used first.
- Loamy deposit - used 49 times, most recently in 2021
- Windblown soil - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Fertile soil - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Loam deposit - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
- Soil deposit - used 13 times, most recently in 2001
- Good earth - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Loamy soil - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Wind-blown soil - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Silt deposit - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
- Wind-borne soil - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
- Clay deposit - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Gardener's soil - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Loamy soil deposit - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Rich soil - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Rich soil deposit - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Windborne soil - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Fertile soils - LOAMS, used 16 times
- Fertile spots - OASES, used 16 times
- Fertile desert spot - OASIS, used 12 times
- Fertile spot - OASIS, used 11 times
- Fertile Crescent land - SYRIA, used 9 times
- Fertile area in a desert - OASIS, used 8 times
Search the clue collection
Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.