Drainage pit
The crossword clue "Drainage pit" is answered by SUMP, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1975. 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
SUMP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SUMP answer page.
Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SUMP
Every other clue in this collection answered by SUMP, most used first.
- Cesspool - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Kind of pump - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Drainage pump - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- ___ pump (drainage aid) - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- __ pump - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Dance in a pit - MOSH, used 31 times
- Wind in a pit - OBOE, used 30 times
- Pit - HOLE, used 29 times
- Pit-___ - APAT, used 23 times
- Reed in a pit - OBOE, used 22 times
- Fodder pit. - SILO, used 17 times
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