Road gunk
The crossword clue "Road gunk" is answered by TAR, a 3-letter entry. Used 29 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TAR
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAR answer page.
Used 29 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by TAR, most used first.
- Sailor - used 188 times, most recently in 2026
- Pitch - used 163 times, most recently in 2026
- Road goo - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
- Black goo - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
- Roofing goo - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- Salt - used 74 times, most recently in 2025
- Old salt - used 67 times, most recently in 2021
- Paving goo - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Paving material - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Roofing material - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Black gunk - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- La Brea ___ Pits - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Besmirch - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Sea dog - used 48 times, most recently in 2022
- Road surface. - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
- Sticky stuff - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Gob - used 40 times, most recently in 2022
- Road sealer - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Seaman - used 39 times, most recently in 2016
- La Brea goo - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Driveway material - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Road crew's supply - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Cigarette substance - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Blacken - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Creosote source - used 25 times, most recently in 2021
- Road covering - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Coal product - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
- Pothole filler - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- La Brea stuff - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Pine product - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Road curve - ESS, used 70 times
- Gunk - GOO, used 51 times
- Road rescue - TOW, used 50 times
- One for the road? - CAR, used 45 times
- Road map abbr. - RTE, used 38 times
- Sport-___ (off-road vehicle) - UTE, used 37 times
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