Separates, as flour
The crossword clue "Separates, as flour" is answered by SIFTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SIFTS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SIFTS answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SIFTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SIFTS, most used first.
- Makes finer - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Uses a sieve - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Prepares flour - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Searches (through) - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Examines carefully - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Examines closely - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Screens. - used 8 times, most recently in 2001
- Sorts (through) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Winnows - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
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.
- Flour factories - MILLS, used 8 times
- Future flour - GRIST, used 8 times
- Separates into stacks - SORTS, used 7 times
- Separates - SORTS, used 6 times
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