Icy downpours
The crossword clue "Icy downpours" is answered by SLEETS, a 6-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLEETS
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLEETS answer page.
Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLEETS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLEETS, most used first.
- Comes down hard? - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Cold showers? - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Winter showers - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Rains ice - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Precipitates icily - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Winter falls - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Icy dessert - SORBET, used 12 times
- Icy moon of Jupiter - EUROPA, used 9 times
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