Gets dirty
The crossword clue "Gets dirty" is answered by SOILS, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1935. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SOILS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SOILS answer page.
Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1935. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SOILS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SOILS, most used first.
- Dirties - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Besmirches - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Makes dirty - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Stains - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Sullies - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Agronomists' samples - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Agronomists' study - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Planting bases - 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.
- Gets closer to - NEARS, used 79 times
- Gets up - RISES, used 70 times
- Gets ready - PREPS, used 42 times
- Gets better - HEALS, used 40 times
- Gets close to - NEARS, used 35 times
- Gets wind of - HEARS, used 32 times
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