Tree anchors

The answer

ROOTS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROOTS answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ROOTS

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

• Alex Haley book - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Origins - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Ancestry - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Cheers (for) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Alex Haley saga - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Haley book - used 10 times, most recently in 1999
• Haley opus - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• Genealogy - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Plant parts - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Alex Haley novel - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Cheers - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Underground network - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Alex Haley classic - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Alex Haley opus - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Underground plant parts - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Quaking tree - ASPEN, used 70 times
• Tree houses - NESTS, used 55 times
• Tree trunks - BOLES, used 39 times
• Pine Tree State - MAINE, used 38 times
• "Lemon Tree" singer Lopez - TRINI, used 37 times
• Tree with catkins - ALDER, used 35 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.