Apply lightly, as a cream — Daily Themed Crossword Answer
This clue appeared in the September 21 2026 Daily Themed Crossword. The answer is below, with its letter count.
The answer
DAB
3 letters
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Where this clue appears
September 21 2026
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Daily Themed Crossword September 21 2026
DAB
October 31 2025
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Daily Themed Crossword October 31 2025
DAB
November 18 2022
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Daily Themed Crossword November 18 2022
DAB
March 27 2022
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Daily Themed Crossword March 27 2022
DAB
September 5 2021
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Daily Themed Crossword September 5 2021
DAB
Pat lightly with a napkin (anagram of "bad")
DAB
3
Pat gently, as makeup
DAB
3
Pat lightly with a napkin
DAB
3
Pat gently, as makeup
DAB
3
Apply gently, as blush (anagram of "bad")
DAB
3
Pat gently, as while applying makeup
DAB
3
Makeup artist's "pat"
DAB
3
Clean with a napkin, daintily
DAB
3
Pat lightly with a napkin
DAB
3
Apply gently
DAB
3
Delicately apply, as cream
DAB
3
Apply delicately, as face cream
DAB
3
Column's partner
ROW
3
In ___ We Trust (U.S. motto)
GOD
3
Graceful pond paddler (rhymes with "dawn")
SWAN
4
Metallic mine find
ORE
3
Singer Grande's nickname
ARI
3
Columbus' state
OHIO
4
Black road-smoothening material
TAR
3
Some Dell products (anagram of "SCP"): Abbr.
PCS
3
Umbilical ___
CORD
4
Positive response to "shall we?"
LETS
4
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