Specks of dust
The crossword clue "Specks of dust" is answered by MOTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. 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
MOTES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOTES answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MOTES
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOTES, most used first.
- Specks - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Dust particles - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Small particles - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Tiny specks - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Dust specks - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Tiny particles - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Bit of dust - SPECK, used 25 times
- Bit the dust - ATEIT, used 21 times
- Specks - IOTAS, used 19 times
- Dust particle - SPECK, used 14 times
- "... ___, dust to dust" - ASHES, used 12 times
- ___ dust. - DRYAS, used 9 times
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