River residue
The crossword clue "River residue" is answered by SILT, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. 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
SILT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SILT answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SILT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SILT, most used first.
- Bank deposit? - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Delta deposit - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Sediment - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- River deposit - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- River sediment - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Delta material - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Riverbed deposit - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Alluvium - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Fine sediment - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Riverbed sediment - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Dregs. - used 8 times, most recently in 1984
- Fine sand - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- River delta deposit - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Stream sediment - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Delta buildup - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Delta sediment - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Riverbank residue - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Sandy sediment - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Sedimentary stuff - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Alluvial deposit - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Dredger's target - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Riverbank component - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Riverbank deposit - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Russian river - URAL, used 294 times
- Swiss river - AARE, used 265 times
- Florence's river - ARNO, used 249 times
- Belgian river - YSER, used 199 times
- Stratford's river - AVON, used 175 times
- Shakespeare's river - AVON, used 138 times
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