Like a Granny Smith apple

The answer

TART

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TART answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TART

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

• Small fruit pie - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Sour - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Pucker-inducing - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Small pie - used 50 times, most recently in 2025
• Sour-tasting - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Bakery buy - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Pucker-producing - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Sharp-tasting - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• Like lemons - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Fruity pastry - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Like a sourball - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
• Piquant - used 21 times, most recently in 2017
• Caustic - used 20 times, most recently in 2015
• Fruit-filled pastry - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Biting - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Lip-puckering - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Tangy - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Like cranberries - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Sharp - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
• Dessert. - used 16 times, most recently in 2001
• Pielet. - used 15 times, most recently in 2007
• Acerbic - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Pungent. - used 14 times, most recently in 2004
• Like Granny Smith apples - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Cutting - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Lemony - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
• Small pastry - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Acerb - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Acidic - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Bakery offering - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Fruity dessert - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Like crab apples - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Mouth-puckering - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Pastry item - used 9 times, most recently in 1978
• Like some apples - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Acidulous - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Bakery item - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Bakery pastry - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Causing a pucker - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Fruit pastry - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Lemonlike - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Like limes - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Snippy - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Turnover. - used 7 times, most recently in 1967
• Bakery goodie - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Floozy - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Fruit pie - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Like a lemon - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Little fruit pie - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Pastry - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Patisserie product - used 6 times, most recently in 2007

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• Economist Smith - ADAM, used 135 times
• Apple desktop - IMAC, used 121 times
• Banned apple spray - ALAR, used 112 times

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