Answer: SOOT
SOOT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 186 times.
Referring Clues:
- Fly ash
- Chimney accumulation
- Lampblack
- Fire damage
- Chimney covering
- What chimney sweeps sweep
- Santa's coat?
- Santa's spot?
- Flue residue
- Smog contributor
- Flue buildup
- Santa soiler
- Combustion byproduct
- Grate stuff
- Spot on Santa
- Chimney residue
- Pipe sullier
- Dirty coat
- Chimney grime
- *Sweep ... coal ... Santa
- Chimney schmutz
- It settles on sweeps
- It's found in stacks
- Epitome of blackness
- Pipe residue
- Sweep's schmutz
- Lampblack, essentially
- Shade of black
- Symbol of blackness
- Chimney sweep's target
- Target of a sweep
- Stack buildup
- Blackener of Santa's suit
- Some particulates
- Chimney buildup
- The dirt on Santa
- Chimney coating
- It soils Santa
- Santa's suit covering, maybe
- Brick pollution
- Flue liner
- Dirt on a Santa suit
- Santa suit soiler
- Furnace film
- Stain on Santa's suit
- Chimney blackener
- Stain on Santa
- Flue coating
- Laundry challenge for a chimney sweep
- Chimney powder
- Flue coat
- Sweep's target, perhaps
- Burning evidence
- Film about a furnace
- Black powder
- It might be found on a sweep hand
- Flue filth
- Chimney sweep's sweepings
- Component of Japanese sumi ink
- Spot for Santa?
- Lampblack source
- Spot for Santa
- Chimney dust
- Chimney sweep's collection
- Flue stuff
- Sweep's sweepings
- Coal dust
- Flue deposit
- Chimney dirt
- Burnt-coal residue
- Toner ingredient
- Chimney sweep's removal
- Chimney-flue coating
- Fireplace residue
- Smudge on Santa
- Chimney lining
- Fine, black stuff
- Schmutz on Santa
- Something sweeps sweep
- Flue substance
- Diesel fuel pollutant
- Flue accumulation
- Combustion residue
- It should cover Santa
- Pollution on some bricks
- Black buildup
- Chimney coat
- Sweep's take?
- Santa's soil
- Sweep's collection
- Stain on Santa's coat, you'd think
- Carbon buildup
- Combustion by-product
- Flue blackener
- Carbon coating
- Blackener of Santa's boots
- Sweeping matter
- Chimney sweep grime
- Fireplace by-product
- Grate film
- Sweep's target
- Flue grime
- Santa's washday problem
- Sartorial concern for Santa
- Coat on Santa's coat
- Black dust
- Black dust
- Chimney sweepings
- Santa spoiler
- Santa's laundry problem
- Santa's laundry woe
- Hearth dust
- Santa's laundry stains
- Stainer of Santa's coat
- Chimney stuff
- Smoke residue
- Byproduct of organic combustion
- Schmutz on Santa's coat
- Sweep spots?
- Chimney sweep coating
- Black substance
- Santa's bootblack?
- Chimney black
- Dirt on Santa
- Stains on a red suit?
- Dirt on Santa's suit
- Flue problem
- Carbon deposit
- Diesel discharge
- Pipe buildup
- Coke product?
- Smudge on 49-Across's suit
- Dirty coat?
- Flue dirt
- Chimney sweep's grime
- Smudge on Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins"
- Grime
- Fire proof?
- Chimney substance
- A pollutant
- Chimney sweep's concern
- 29-Down buildup
- Form of carbon
- Film in a flue
- Laundry woe at the Claus home?
- Dirty coat in a chimney
- Some air pollution
- Air polluter
- Fossil fuel residue
- It may be caught in the flue
- The black in the stack
- It turns Santa's suit black
- Smokestack buildup
- Diesel by-product
- Coat inside a chimney
- Pollution component
- Santa suit stainer
- Sweep's removal
- Challenge for Santa's dry-cleaner
- Santa's suit stainer
- Black dust of a sort
- Chimney liner
- Dust in a chimney
- A concern of ecologists
- Fireplace blackener
- Santa's suit soiler
- Santa's laundry woe?
- Smudge on Santa's suit
- Chimney gunk
- It makes smoke darker
- Gunk on Santa's suit
- Fireplace buildup
- Annoyance for Santa
- It appears in stacks
- Chimney particles
- Coat for Santa?
- Emissions concern
- What sweeps sweep
- Grime on Santa's suit
- Residue on Santa's suit
- Schmutz on a chimney sweep's face
- Wood stove buildup
- #3
- Flue dust
- Flue symptom?
- Stuff washed off of Santa's suit, presumably
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 03, 2025
- LA Times - July 07, 2025
- LA Times - June 22, 2025
- USA Today - February 24, 2025
- USA Today - January 27, 2025
- New York Times - January 15, 2025
- New York Times - November 28, 2024
- LA Times - November 03, 2024
- LA Times - September 23, 2024
- LA Times - August 05, 2024
- LA Times - July 23, 2024
- LA Times - November 16, 2023
- LA Times - November 05, 2023
- USA Today - September 21, 2023
- LA Times - July 30, 2023
- LA Times - June 18, 2023
- USA Today - February 28, 2023
- LA Times - February 23, 2023
- New York Times - February 18, 2023
- LA Times - December 27, 2022
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