Cooking fat
The crossword clue "Cooking fat" is answered by LARD, a 4-letter entry. Used 131 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 22 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
LARD
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LARD answer page.
Used 131 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 22 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.
- SHORTENING (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for LARD
Every other clue in this collection answered by LARD, most used first.
- Shortening - used 49 times, most recently in 2023
- Frying medium - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Fat - used 39 times, most recently in 2015
- Hog fat - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Animal fat - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Pie crust ingredient - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Low in fat - LEAN, used 105 times
- Low-fat - LEAN, used 69 times
- Cooking herb - SAGE, used 51 times
- Fat - SUET, used 48 times
- Chew the fat - CHAT, used 33 times
- "The Joy of Cooking" author Rombauer - IRMA, used 31 times
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