Handful of straw
The crossword clue "Handful of straw" is answered by WISP, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1950. 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
WISP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WISP answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WISP
Every other clue in this collection answered by WISP, most used first.
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- Trace of smoke - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Thin strand - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Trace - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Will-o'-the-___ - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Smoke trace - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
- Fleeting trace - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Puff of smoke - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Shred. - used 8 times, most recently in 1966
- Thin puff of smoke - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Faint trace - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Filmy piece. - used 7 times, most recently in 1984
- Curl of smoke - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Puff - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tendril - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Tendril of smoke - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Thin streak - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Thin trail of smoke - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Thin tuft - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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.
- Straw in the wind - OMEN, used 40 times
- A handful of - SOME, used 36 times
- A handful - SOME, used 30 times
- Use a straw - SUCK, used 27 times
- Uses a straw - SIPS, used 23 times
- Handful of hair - HANK, used 15 times
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