Tries the wine
The crossword clue "Tries the wine" is answered by SIPS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SIPS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SIPS answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SIPS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SIPS, most used first.
- Drinks slowly - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Tastes - used 40 times, most recently in 2023
- Nurses - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Uses a straw - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Doesn't guzzle - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Dainty drinks - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Small drinks - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Drinks daintily - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Small tastes - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Nurses, as a drink - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Samples - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Tentative tastes - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Little drinks - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Nurses in a bar - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Thimblefuls - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Nurses a drink - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Nurses at the bar - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Tries the tea - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Drinks a little - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Tiny drinks - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Tries the coffee - 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.
- Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
- In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
- On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
- From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
- Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
- Italian wine region - ASTI, used 300 times
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