Fresh from the pool

The answer

WET

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WET answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for WET

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

• Drenched - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Dripping - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Rainy - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Soaked - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Drench - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
• Freshly painted - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Moist - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Sopping - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Damp - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Moisten - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Soggy - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of blanket - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Like fresh paint - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Just painted - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Soaking - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Saturated - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Dampen - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• More than damp - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Allowing alcohol - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Dewy - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ blanket - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Not just damp - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• "Slippery when ___" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Sodden - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Hose down - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• "Slippery When ___" (Bon Jovi album) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• __ behind the ears - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "___ Hot American Summer" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Drizzly - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• In need of a towel - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Waterlogged - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• All ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Anti-prohibitionist - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Humid - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• More than moist - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Showery - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• From ___ Z - ATO, used 460 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times

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