Stopped a squeak
The crossword clue "Stopped a squeak" is answered by OILED, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1975. 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
OILED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OILED answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OILED
Every other clue in this collection answered by OILED, most used first.
- Lubricated - used 162 times, most recently in 2026
- Well-___ machine - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Blotto - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
- 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
- Anointed. - used 9 times, most recently in 1968
- 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
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.
- "Christ Stopped at __" - EBOLI, used 47 times
- Stopped - ENDED, used 38 times
- Stopped sleeping - AWOKE, used 26 times
- Stopped slouching - SATUP, used 24 times
- Stopped lying? - SATUP, used 23 times
- Stopped lying? - AROSE, used 23 times
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