Holey utensil
The crossword clue "Holey utensil" is answered by SIEVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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SIEVE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SIEVE answer page.
Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SIEVE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SIEVE, most used first.
- Strainer - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Kitchen strainer - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Colander - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- It won't hold water - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- It doesn't hold water - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Kitchen utensil - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Colander's kin - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- It's full of holes - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Colander kin - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Sifter - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Soup-serving utensil - LADLE, used 34 times
- Kitchen utensil - RICER, used 32 times
- Hybrid utensil - SPORK, used 26 times
- Holey cheese - SWISS, used 22 times
- Ice cream utensil - SCOOP, used 19 times
- Kitchen utensil - PARER, used 18 times
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