Thin candle
The crossword clue "Thin candle" is answered by TAPER, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TAPER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAPER answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 6 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
- Narrow candle - used 17 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
- 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.
- Thin pancake - CREPE, used 91 times
- Thin as ___ - ARAIL, used 71 times
- Thin cookie - WAFER, used 61 times
- Thin nails - BRADS, used 35 times
- Thin soup - BROTH, used 35 times
- Thin porridge - GRUEL, used 27 times
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