Work with flour

The answer

SIFT

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

Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 7 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
• Examine closely - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Make finer - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Work units - ERGS, used 256 times
• Work hard - TOIL, used 183 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times
• With: Fr. - AVEC, used 132 times

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