The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TISSUES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Cold comfort? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TISSUES | 14 % | 7 |
| TISSUE | 14 % | 6 |
| FAN | 10 % | 3 |
| COUGHDROPS | 10 % | 10 |
| PARKA | 10 % | 5 |
| CONTAC | 5 % | 6 |
| AIRCONDITIONING | 5 % | 15 |
| ICECREAM | 5 % | 8 |
| CHICKENSOUP | 5 % | 11 |
| OVERCOAT | 5 % | 8 |
| KLEENEX | 5 % | 7 |
| COUGHDROP | 5 % | 9 |
| EARMUFFS | 5 % | 8 |
| SHAWL | 5 % | 5 |
Why may TISSUES be the right solution?
The clue "Cold comfort?" is a play on words suggesting that the answer is something that provides comfort when feeling cold. Tissues are commonly used to provide comfort when someone has a cold or is feeling under the weather, making it the fitting answer to the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cold comfort?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mislike
- cold
- cold shower
- cold shoulder
- chill
- cold fish
- discountenance
- unsympathy
- cooling card
- distaste
- hard feelings
- last thing one needs
Crossword Answer definitions
TISSUES noun- Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
- A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
- A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
- Absorbent paper as material.
- A group of cells similar in origin that function together to do a specific job.
- Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
- To form tissue of; to interweave.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result TISSUES
- Alien uses its Kleenex (7)
- Scotties, e.g.
- Ersatz hankies
- Many get nose jobs
- Items for a sniffler
- Offering to an allergy sufferer
- Cold sufferer's boxful
- Sneezer's needs
- Cold sufferer's supply
- Tearjerker watcher's need
More clues leading to the result TISSUE
- Sniffler's need
- Tear sheet?
- Gauzy material
- Something to sneeze at?
- Epithelium
- Gauzy fabric
- Thin paper
- Tearjerker necessity
- It's needed while watching a tearjerker
- Crying need?
More clues leading to the result FAN
- 1996 De Niro film, with "The"
- August appliance
- Enthusiast
- Strike out
- Swing and miss
- Bleacherite
- Engine part
- Kind of mail
- Air mover
- Summer cooler
More clues leading to the result COUGHDROPS
More clues leading to the result PARKA
- Snow coat
- Hooded jacket
- Hooded winter wear
- Skier's jacket
- Canadian winter coat
- Hooded coat
- Hooded winter coat
- Winter jacket
- Cold-weather coat
- Hooded windbreaker
More clues leading to the result CONTAC
- Cold comfort?
- Popular nasal relief brand
- Discontinued Sudafed competitor
- Provider of cold comfort
- Cold+Flu maker
- Cold relief caplet
- Source of cold comfort?
- Cold + Flu maker
- DayQuil competitor
- Cold medicine
More clues leading to the result AIRCONDITIONING
- It makes summers livable
- State of the temperature?
- Auto option
- This provides 54-Across in the 17-Across
- Big draw of 1930s cinemas
- A boon to movies in summer.
- Relief for city swelterers.
- Modern comfort.
- Timely topic.
- Asset in the tropics.
More clues leading to the result ICECREAM
- Float component
- Frozen dessert
- Sandwich filler, maybe
- Split part
- Words before bar or cone
- Bananas Foster ingredient
- Frozen treat
- Cone filler
- Part of a shake
- It's usually scooped up
More clues leading to the result CHICKENSOUP
- Broth "for the soul," in motivational books
- Part 3 of the quip
- Reputed cold remedy
- Aid for getting 73-Across, so they say
- Mom's cure-all
- It's for the soul, in literature
- It's for the soul, in books
- Homemade flu remedy
- Diner dish
- *Cold comfort?
More clues leading to the result OVERCOAT
- Chesterfield
- Cold-weather wear
- Uncle Fester's garment
- Chesterfield, e.g.
- Ulster, for one
- Winter wear
- Winter outerwear
- Chesterfield.
- Raglan.
- Garment
More clues leading to the result KLEENEX
- Bedside supply
- Paper in the bathroom?
- It's something to sneeze at
- Trademark facial tissue
- ___ : tissue :: Coke : cola
- Dispenser brand
- Brand in a box in a bathroom
- Sneezer's request
- Allergy sufferer's aid
- Sniffler's need
More clues leading to the result COUGHDROP
- How to make a chain-smoker seasick?
- Ricola product
- Throat soother
- Medicated candy
- Halls product
- Throat-soothing lozenge
- Cold comfort
- Hacker's aid
More clues leading to the result EARMUFFS
- Winter headwear
- Winter headgear
- Cold weather protectors
- They were invented by 15-year-old Chester Greenwood in the winter of 1873
- Cold-weather headgear
- Winter wear.
- Flap covers
- Protectors in cold weather
- Cold comfort?
- Cold weather wear