Not dense
The crossword clue "Not dense" is answered by SPARSE, a 6-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1944. 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
SPARSE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARSE answer page.
Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1944. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SPARSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPARSE, most used first.
- Few and far between - used 112 times, most recently in 2026
- Meager - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Thinly scattered - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Scanty - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
- Thin - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Thinly distributed - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Thinly spread - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Thinly populated - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- In short supply - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Far from abundant - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Few and scattered - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Scattered - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Widely scattered - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Scant - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Spread out - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Far from dense - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Like desert vegetation - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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- Not moving - ATREST, used 48 times
- Not quite - ALMOST, used 48 times
- Not optional - NEEDED, used 38 times
- Not out - ATHOME, used 38 times
- Not as fresh - STALER, used 31 times
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