Get a pet from a shelter
The crossword clue "Get a pet from a shelter" is answered by ADOPT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ADOPT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADOPT answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ADOPT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ADOPT, most used first.
- Take as one's own - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Take on - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Take in - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Vote to accept - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Embrace as one's own - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Assume - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Make one's own - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Ratify - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Take up - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Espouse - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Embrace - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Take under one's wing - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Add to the family - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Rescue from a shelter - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Take into one's family - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Start using - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Take in, as a stray - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Take in from a pet shelter - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Take up, as a cause - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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- "Get lost!" - SCRAM, used 142 times
- Get out of bed - ARISE, used 110 times
- It comes from the heart - AORTA, used 108 times
- From the top - AGAIN, used 93 times
- Get around - EVADE, used 91 times
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