Overflows

The answer

TEEMS

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

Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• SPILLS (3 uses in xd)
• ABOUNDS (2 uses in xd)
• BRIMS (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for TEEMS

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

• Abounds - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
• Swarms - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Abounds (with) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Overflows (with) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Swarms (with) - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Pours - used 20 times, most recently in 2013
• Is abundant - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Crawls (with) - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Is rife - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Is rife (with) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Rains cats and dogs - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Swarms, as with life - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Lock of hair - TRESS, used 334 times
• Spud - TATER, used 314 times
• Lukewarm - TEPID, used 252 times
• Doctrine - TENET, used 234 times
• Rich cake - TORTE, used 234 times
• Characteristic - TRAIT, used 226 times

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