Wax's opposite
The crossword clue "Wax's opposite" is answered by WANE, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WANE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WANE answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WANE
Every other clue in this collection answered by WANE, most used first.
- Diminish - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Dwindle - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Decline - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Ebb - used 42 times, most recently in 2023
- Taper off - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Decrease - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Subside - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Fade away - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Fall off - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Drop off - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Opposite of wax - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Decrease gradually - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Peter out - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
- Grow dim - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
- Lose power - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Die down - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Draw to a close - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Diminish slowly - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Wind down - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Fade - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Abate - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Grow faint - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Lose intensity - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Gradually decrease - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Opposite of "sans" - AVEC, used 108 times
- Opposite of aweather - ALEE, used 77 times
- Neatnik's opposite - SLOB, used 52 times
- Opposite of pro- - ANTI, used 41 times
- Pro's opposite - ANTI, used 40 times
- Opposite of fem. - MASC, used 39 times
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