__ congestion (cold symptom)
The crossword clue "__ congestion (cold symptom)" is answered by NASAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
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NASAL
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Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NASAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by NASAL, most used first.
- Twangy - used 206 times, most recently in 2026
- Twangy, as a voice - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Twangy-sounding - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of spray - used 30 times, most recently in 2020
- Like Fran Drescher's voice - used 26 times, most recently in 2020
- Like a twangy voice - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Stuffy-sounding - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Congested-sounding - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Sounding congested - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ spray - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Like Willie Nelson's voice - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Said with a twang - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some passages - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Sounding stuffy - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Like Bob Dylan's voice - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Twangy, as speech - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Nose-related - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Twangy-voiced - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Type of spray - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Kind of drip - used 7 times, most recently in 1992
- Like a cold sufferer's voice - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some cavities - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Of the nose - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Vocally twangy - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- ___ decongestant - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Sounding like a cold sufferer - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- Cold shower? - SLEET, used 43 times
- Very cold - GELID, used 41 times
- Flu symptom - FEVER, used 31 times
- Extremely cold - GELID, used 19 times
- Cold - ALGID, used 18 times
- Cold temperatures - TEENS, used 18 times
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