Like a storied piper

The answer

PIED

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PIED answer page.

Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PIED

Every other clue in this collection answered by PIED, most used first.

• Multicolored - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• "The __ Piper of Hamelin" - used 43 times, most recently in 2024
• Variegated - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ Piper - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Mottled - used 28 times, most recently in 2020
• Like Hamelin's piper - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• __ Piper of Hamelin - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Like the Piper - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• __-a-terre - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Parti-colored - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Motley - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Splotchy - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• The __ Piper - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Varicolored - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Dappled - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Like a noted piper - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Like the piper in Hamelin - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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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