Some are essential
The crossword clue "Some are essential" is answered by OILS, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OILS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OILS answer page.
Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OILS
Every other clue in this collection answered by OILS, most used first.
- Lubricates - used 130 times, most recently in 2026
- Some paintings - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Paintings. - used 21 times, most recently in 1997
- Fixes a squeak - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Monet medium - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Artist's medium - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Frying liquids - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Stops from squeaking - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Certain paintings - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Painter's medium - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Liquids for frying - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Art medium - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Masseur's supply - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Essential __ - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Eliminates a squeak - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Medium for Monet - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Portrait medium - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Rembrandt works - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Removes a squeak from - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Some museum pieces - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Art supplies - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- De-squeaks - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Many Manets - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Masseur's stock - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Monet's supply - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Palette paints - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Spa supplies - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Squelches a squeak - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Some - AFEW, used 116 times
- Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
- "Are you ___ out?" - INOR, used 102 times
- Some whiskeys - RYES, used 81 times
- Some NCOs - SGTS, used 80 times
- Some wines - REDS, used 72 times
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