Black paving materials
The crossword clue "Black paving materials" is answered by TARS, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TARS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TARS answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TARS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TARS, most used first.
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- Sailors - used 59 times, most recently in 2021
- Salts - used 38 times, most recently in 2021
- Swabbies - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Gobs - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
- Besmirches - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Seamen - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
- Seafarers - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- ___ and feathers - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Blackens - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Veteran sailors - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Repairs, as a driveway - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Covers with black goo - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Old sailors - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Mariners - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Repairs, as a roof - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Bluejackets. - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
- Smears - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Works on the road - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Does some paving - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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