Beach grains

The answer

SANDS

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• SAND (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for SANDS

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

• Smooths, as wood - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Smooths, in a way - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Beaches. - used 14 times, most recently in 2000
• Beach bits - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ of time - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Makes smooth - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• "__ of Iwo Jima" - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Smooths - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Smooths wood - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Contents of hourglasses - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Hourglass fillers - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• The __ of time - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Beach tracts - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Vegas casino razed in 1996 - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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.

• D-Day beach - OMAHA, used 95 times
• Beach souvenir - SHELL, used 35 times
• "On the Beach" author - SHUTE, used 30 times
• Wilson of the Beach Boys - BRIAN, used 21 times
• Beach - SHORE, used 18 times
• City west of Daytona Beach - OCALA, used 18 times

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