Friction reducer
The crossword clue "Friction reducer" is answered by LUBE, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1993. 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
LUBE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LUBE answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- BALLBEARING (1 uses in xd)
- BAWLBEARING (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for LUBE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LUBE, most used first.
- Garage job - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
- Jiffy ___ - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Garage job, for short - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Service station job - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Grease monkey's job - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Service station service - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Auto service job - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Grease job - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Grease monkey's task - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Friction fighter - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Garage service - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Oil change, informally - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Visibility reducer - HAZE, used 16 times
- Visibility reducer - SMOG, used 14 times
- Visibility reducer - MIST, used 13 times
- Windshield glare reducer - TINT, used 10 times
- Bit of marital friction - SPAT, used 6 times
- Glare reducer - TINT, used 6 times
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