Mess of hair
The crossword clue "Mess of hair" is answered by MOP, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MOP
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOP answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOP, most used first.
- Swab - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Floor cleaner - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Unruly head of hair - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Janitor's tool - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Floor-washing tool - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Unruly hair - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Swab the deck - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Custodian's tool - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Janitor's implement - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Unruly do - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Floor-cleaning tool - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Clean the floor - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Swabbing tool - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Cleaning tool - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Swab the decks - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Floor cleaner's tool - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Swiffer product - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Barber's challenge - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Clean (up) - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Swabbie's tool - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Floor-washing implement - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Unruly locks - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
- Do the floor - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Unruly hairdo - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Finish, with "up" - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Janitorial tool - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Spill cleaner - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Unkempt hair - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Broom closet item - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Challenge for a barber - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Cleaning tool in a bucket - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Deck cleaner - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Disheveled do - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Do a floor chore - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Item in a bucket - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Unruly mass of hair - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Mess up - ERR, used 508 times
- Hair goo - GEL, used 100 times
- Hide-hair link - NOR, used 67 times
- Hair goop - GEL, used 60 times
- Hide ___ hair - NOR, used 57 times
- Hide-hair connector - NOR, used 44 times
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