Like blushing cheeks
The crossword clue "Like blushing cheeks" is answered by ROSY, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ROSY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROSY answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 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 ROSY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ROSY, most used first.
- Optimistic - used 281 times, most recently in 2026
- Promising - used 64 times, most recently in 2024
- Like Santa's cheeks - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Looking up - used 39 times, most recently in 2022
- Cheerful - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Flushed, as cheeks - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Upbeat - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Full of promise - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Pinkish - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Like pink cheeks - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Blushing. - used 12 times, most recently in 1993
- Flushed - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Like an optimist's outlook - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Optimistic, as an outlook - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Like some cheeks - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Like an optimistic outlook - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Pink - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Promising, as one's future - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Glowing - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Like flushed cheeks - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Reddish, as cheeks - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Having a healthy glow - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Looking good - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Pink, as cheeks - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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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