What inspired Watt
The crossword clue "What inspired Watt" is answered by STEAM, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 1993; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STEAM
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STEAM answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 1993; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for STEAM
Every other clue in this collection answered by STEAM, most used first.
- Water vapor - used 60 times, most recently in 2025
- Iron output - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Fulton's power - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Teakettle output - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Cook, as clams - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Mirror fogger - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Teakettle emission - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Vapor - used 16 times, most recently in 2013
- Geyser output - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Iron production - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Power source - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Calliope power - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Energy - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Cook clams - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Iron emission - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Something to let off - used 11 times, most recently in 2010
- Power. - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Sauna stuff - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Tick off - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Cook, as dumplings - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Kettle output - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Locomotive power - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Prepare clams - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Pressing need? - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Source of power. - used 8 times, most recently in 1967
- Watt's power - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Cook, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Calliope need - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Cook, as mussels - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Letter opener? - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Old Faithful output - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Tee off - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Vapor from a teakettle - 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 what way?" - HOWSO, used 66 times
- "What a pity!" - SOSAD, used 46 times
- "What a shame!" - SOSAD, used 38 times
- What "i.e." stands for - IDEST, used 33 times
- What "veni" means. - ICAME, used 19 times
- What we have here - THESE, used 18 times
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