Carpet feature

The answer

NAP

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NAP answer page.

Used 27 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 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.

• PILE (46 uses in xd)
• PICE (1 uses in xd)
• VOLTA (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NAP

Every other clue in this collection answered by NAP, most used first.

• Snooze - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
• Siesta - used 183 times, most recently in 2026
• Forty winks - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
• Short snooze - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
• Catch some z's - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Quick snooze - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Short sleep - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Day break? - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Doze - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Pile - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Afternoon break - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• 40 winks - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Afternoon snooze - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Time out? - used 24 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.

• Shark feature - FIN, used 51 times
• Carpet - RUG, used 41 times
• Needle feature - EYE, used 39 times
• File folder feature - TAB, used 36 times
• Fish feature - FIN, used 30 times
• Jacuzzi feature - JET, used 26 times

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