Like sardines
The crossword clue "Like sardines" is answered by OILY, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1971. 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
OILY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OILY answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 6 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.
- DENSELY (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for OILY
Every other clue in this collection answered by OILY, most used first.
- Unctuous - used 153 times, most recently in 2026
- Greasy - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Slick - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
- Overly suave - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Smooth-talking - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Like unwashed hair - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Smarmy - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Too smooth. - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Suave - used 8 times, most recently in 1996
- Like a dipstick - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Like a mechanic's rag - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Like an unwiped dipstick - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Pinguid - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Bootlicking - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Full of grease - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Like a slick garage floor - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Like bad fried food - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Like some garage floors - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Oleaginous - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Overly smooth - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Well-lubricated - used 6 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.
- Like ___ of bricks - ATON, used 201 times
- Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
- Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
- Like fine wine - AGED, used 99 times
- Sleep like ___ - ALOG, used 96 times
- Move like molasses - OOZE, used 83 times
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