Cause a stench
The crossword clue "Cause a stench" is answered by REEK, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
REEK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REEK answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for REEK
Every other clue in this collection answered by REEK, most used first.
- Stink - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Stink to high heaven - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Smell awful - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Offend the nose - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Smell bad - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Fume - used 33 times, most recently in 2002
- Stench - used 28 times, most recently in 2021
- Really stink - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Smell really bad - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Need a bath badly - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Smell terrible - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Smell - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Smell to high heaven - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Really smell - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Emit fumes - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Exude - used 11 times, most recently in 2005
- Raise a stink - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Smell something fierce - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Offend olfactorily - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Smell horrible - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Smell strongly - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Stink up the joint - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Make a big stink - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Strong odor - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Offend the olfactories - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Stench - ODOR, used 203 times
- Cause of ruin - BANE, used 43 times
- Underlying cause - ROOT, used 33 times
- Cause for a lawsuit - TORT, used 21 times
- Cause of a bad air day - SMOG, used 17 times
- Cause of distress - BANE, used 16 times
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