Kitten's plaything
The crossword clue "Kitten's plaything" is answered by YARN, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YARN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YARN answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 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 YARN
Every other clue in this collection answered by YARN, most used first.
- Tall tale - used 68 times, most recently in 2024
- Tale - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
- Fish story - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitter's need - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitting need - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Story - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Knitting material - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Tall story - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
- Knitter's material - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitter's ball - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitter's purchase - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- It's a long story - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Ball in a basket - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Ball material - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Knitter's supply - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- "The one that got away," e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Kitten's sound - PURR, used 18 times
- Kitten's cry - MEWL, used 8 times
- Plaything - DOLL, used 8 times
- Kitten's cry - MEOW, used 6 times
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