Make finer

The answer

SIFT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SIFT answer page.

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SIFT

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

• Winnow - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Search (through) - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Screen - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a sieve - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Go (through) - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Sort (through) - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Work with flour - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Examine closely - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Process flour - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Put through a sieve - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Put through a strainer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Refine, as flour - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Strain, as flour - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Prepare flour - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Baking instruction - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Recipe direction - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Strain - 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.

• Make over - REDO, used 404 times
• Make angry - RILE, used 146 times
• Make eyes at - OGLE, used 142 times
• Make simpler - EASE, used 136 times
• Make, as money - EARN, used 86 times
• Make well - HEAL, used 83 times

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