Thanksgiving side dish
The crossword clue "Thanksgiving side dish" is answered by YAM, a 3-letter entry. Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 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 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ACORNSQUASH (2 uses in xd)
- ORNSQUASH (1 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- Edible root - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- 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
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- Indian lentil dish - DAL, used 70 times
- Thanksgiving dessert - PIE, used 61 times
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