Specially formed
The crossword clue "Specially formed" is answered by ADHOC, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ADHOC
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADHOC answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ADHOC
Every other clue in this collection answered by ADHOC, most used first.
- Kind of committee - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some committees - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Committee type - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Type of committee - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
- For a specific purpose - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Impromptu - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Improvised - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ committee - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Temporary, as a committee - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Literally, "for this" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Special-purpose - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- For this purpose only - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
- For this purpose - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Formed for a specific purpose - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Formed for a particular purpose - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Not permanent - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Specially formed, as a committee - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Created for a specific purpose - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- For a specific purpose, as a committee - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Like a temporary committee - used 6 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.
- Formed a curve - ARCED, used 11 times
- __ up; formed a queue - LINED, used 9 times
- Specially trained group - CADRE, used 8 times
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