Cold coating
The crossword clue "Cold coating" is answered by RIME, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RIME
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RIME answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for RIME
Every other clue in this collection answered by RIME, most used first.
- Frost - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
- Hoarfrost - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
- "The ___ of the Ancient Mariner" - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Winter coat - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Icy coating - used 35 times, most recently in 2017
- Frosty coating - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Coleridge work - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Winter coating - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Frosty covering - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Coleridge creation - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Frosty film - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Frozen coating - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- "__ of the Ancient Mariner" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- White frost. - used 7 times, most recently in 1970
- Coating of frost - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Hoar frost - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Icy cover - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- White coat - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Wintry coating - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Cold War initials - USSR, used 128 times
- Cold one - BEER, used 41 times
- Cold capital - OSLO, used 39 times
- Had down cold - KNEW, used 39 times
- Give the cold shoulder to - SNUB, used 36 times
- Seed coating - ARIL, used 34 times
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