Stir up sediment
The crossword clue "Stir up sediment" is answered by ROIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. 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
ROIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROIL answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ROIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by ROIL, most used first.
- Stir up - used 189 times, most recently in 2026
- Agitate - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Muddy up - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Disturb - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Churn up - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Vex - used 43 times, most recently in 2019
- Make muddy - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Irritate - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Churn - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Muddy the waters - used 23 times, most recently in 2014
- Muddy - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
- Make turbid - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Provoke - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Stir turbulently - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
- Ruffle - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Displease. - used 9 times, most recently in 1965
- Shake up - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Bubble and churn - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Make turbulent - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Annoy - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Muddy, as water - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Aggravate - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Move turbulently - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Muddy, as waters - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Muddy up, as water - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Render turbid - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Sediment - LEES, used 123 times
- Stir up - RILE, used 123 times
- Sediment - SILT, used 61 times
- Wine sediment - LEES, used 60 times
- River sediment - SILT, used 51 times
- Stir-fry pans - WOKS, used 31 times
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