Knitter's material

The answer

YARN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YARN answer page.

Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Kitten's plaything - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Knitting material - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Tall story - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
• 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.

• Doily material - LACE, used 61 times
• Pottery material - CLAY, used 43 times
• Sweater material - WOOL, used 42 times
• Rope material - HEMP, used 41 times
• Blue material - SMUT, used 37 times
• Suit material? - TORT, used 32 times

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