Narrow candle

The answer

TAPER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAPER answer page.

Used 17 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TAPER

Every other clue in this collection answered by TAPER, most used first.

• Become narrower - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Come to a point - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Candle - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
• Slender candle - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Get to the point? - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Diminish gradually - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Get narrower - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Come to the point? - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Gradually narrow - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Narrow - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Grow narrower - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Thin candle - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Narrow gradually - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Acuminate - used 7 times, most recently in 1992

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.

• Narrow cuts - SLITS, used 58 times
• Narrow groove - STRIA, used 54 times
• Narrow openings - SLITS, used 49 times
• Narrow shelf - LEDGE, used 39 times
• Narrow valleys - GLENS, used 35 times
• Narrow furrow - STRIA, used 31 times

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