Anointed.
The crossword clue "Anointed." is answered by OILED, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1968; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OILED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OILED answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1968; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 3 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.
- ANELED (3 uses in xd)
- NARDED (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for OILED
Every other clue in this collection answered by OILED, most used first.
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- Greased - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Stopped from squeaking - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Kept from squeaking - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- No longer squeaking - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Stopped a squeak - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Fixed, as a squeak - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Pie-eyed - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Added lubrication to - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Made slick - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Fixed a squeak - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- No longer squeaky - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Squelched a squeak - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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