The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CHAP which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Dry and crack crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CHAP | 100 % | 4 |
Why may CHAP be the right solution?
The word "CHAP" is the right solution because it means to dry and crack, especially referring to the skin becoming dry and cracked.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Dry and crack
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- chap
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- air
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Crossword Answer definitions
CHAP noun- (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- A customer, a buyer.
- A child.
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- A division; a breach, as in a party.
- A blow; a rap.
- Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- To strike, knock.
- (often in the plural) The jaw.
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
- (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a social or religious body.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A decretal epistle.
- A location or compartment.
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