Edible root
The crossword clue "Edible root" is answered by YAM, a 3-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1946. 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
YAM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YAM answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for YAM
Every other clue in this collection answered by YAM, most used first.
- Sweet potato - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Thanksgiving veggie - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- Candied veggie - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Orange tuber - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Thanksgiving tuber - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Starchy tuber - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Sweet potato kin - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Orange veggie - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Thanksgiving side dish - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Candied tuber - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Vegetable. - used 18 times, most recently in 1973
- Tasty tuber - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Edible tuber - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Thanksgiving vegetable - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Verb for Popeye - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Thanksgiving staple - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Holiday veggie - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Sweet tuber - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Candied Thanksgiving vegetable - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Sweet potato cousin - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Sweet potato lookalike - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Orange root vegetable - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Orange vegetable - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Candied treat - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Holiday tuber - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Orange Thanksgiving vegetable - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Starchy side dish - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Sweet potato relative - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Thanksgiving serving - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Turkey Day tuber - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Yellow Thanksgiving veggie - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Root word? - RAH, used 30 times
- No longer edible - BAD, used 25 times
- Square root of nove - TRE, used 22 times
- Taro root paste - POI, used 22 times
- Number that's its own square root - ONE, used 20 times
- Square root of IX - III, used 16 times
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