Like fresh paint
The crossword clue "Like fresh paint" is answered by WET, a 3-letter entry. Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WET
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WET answer page.
Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 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
- 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
- Fresh from the pool - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- 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.
- Fresh - NEW, used 215 times
- Like - ALA, used 149 times
- "Fresh Air" airer - NPR, used 97 times
- "The Fresh Prince of ___-Air" - BEL, used 89 times
- Day-___ paint - GLO, used 83 times
- Like a fox - SLY, used 73 times
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