___ down (softens)
The crossword clue "___ down (softens)" is answered by TONES, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TONES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TONES answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TONES
Every other clue in this collection answered by TONES, most used first.
- Musical sounds - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Shades - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Shades of color - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Color variations - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hues - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Sounds - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Steps on a scale? - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Phone sounds - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Shadings - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
- Vocal qualities - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Pitches - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Musical notes - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Firms up - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Sound qualities - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Color qualities - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Softens, with "down" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Vocal inflections - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Accents - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
- Chromatic nuances - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Inflections - used 6 times, most recently in 2003
- Moderates, with "down" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Musical pitches - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Wear down - ERODE, used 180 times
- Run-down - SEEDY, used 178 times
- Weighed down - LADEN, used 122 times
- Duck down - EIDER, used 83 times
- Die down - ABATE, used 82 times
- Bogged down - MIRED, used 73 times
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