Sooty matter
The crossword clue "Sooty matter" is answered by SMUT, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SMUT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMUT answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SMUT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMUT, most used first.
- Blue material - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Lewd material - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Censor's target - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Plant disease - used 24 times, most recently in 2006
- Porn - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- X-rated stuff - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Blue books? - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Pornography - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Obscene material - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- X-rated material - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Filth - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Salacious stuff - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Blue stuff - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Obscenity - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Target of obscenity laws - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Dirty stuff - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Soot particle - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Plant fungus - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Raunchy material - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Salacious material - 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.
- In the matter of - ASTO, used 56 times
- Heart of the matter - GIST, used 54 times
- Small matter? - ATOM, used 37 times
- Heart of the matter - CRUX, used 31 times
- Bit of matter - ATOM, used 28 times
- Printed matter - TEXT, used 23 times
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