Crossword clues - Answer
SMEARS
SMEARS is a 6-letter crossword answer with 12 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 101 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SMEARS
SMEARS
6Letters
12Clues in collection
101Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for SMEARS in this collection
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- Defames - used 14 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Fingerpaints - used 11 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Smudges - used 10 times across 9 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Mascara mishaps - used 9 times across 8 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Slanders - used 9 times across 9 distinct years, most recently in 2022
- Lipstick mishaps - used 8 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Campaign tactics - used 7 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Daubs. - used 7 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 1990
- Slings mud at - used 7 times across 7 distinct years, most recently in 2018
- Sullies - used 7 times across 7 distinct years, most recently in 2022
- Makeup mishaps - used 6 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Vilifies - used 6 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2022
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