Shed one's skin
The crossword clue "Shed one's skin" is answered by MOLT, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MOLT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOLT answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MOLT
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOLT, most used first.
- Shed - used 77 times, most recently in 2025
- Shed feathers - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
- Lose feathers - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Drop down? - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Shed, as feathers - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Shed skin - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Birds and snakes do it - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Drop feathers - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Skin opening - PORE, used 194 times
- Skin soother - ALOE, used 170 times
- Skin care brand - OLAY, used 112 times
- Skin cream ingredient - ALOE, used 103 times
- ___ one's time (wait) - BIDE, used 89 times
- Lose one's footing - SLIP, used 74 times
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