Smooths wood

The answer

SANDS

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Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• 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 grains - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• 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.

• Fragrant wood - CEDAR, used 132 times
• Light wood - BALSA, used 83 times
• Lightweight wood - BALSA, used 45 times
• Model airplane wood - BALSA, used 44 times
• Model wood - BALSA, used 44 times
• Dark wood - EBONY, used 35 times

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