Tendril of smoke
The crossword clue "Tendril of smoke" is answered by WISP, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
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4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WISP answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 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.
- Bit of smoke - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
- Handful of straw - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
- 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
- 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.
- Smoke detector? - NOSE, used 20 times
- Smoke an e-cig - VAPE, used 19 times
- "Summer and Smoke" heroine - ALMA, used 16 times
- Tendril. - BINE, used 15 times
- "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" composer - KERN, used 14 times
- Go __ smoke - UPIN, used 12 times
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