Take in, as a stray
The crossword clue "Take in, as a stray" is answered by ADOPT, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2017. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ADOPT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADOPT answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2017. It appears in 5 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
- Get a pet from a shelter - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Start using - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
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.
- Take care of - SEETO, used 337 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Take place - OCCUR, used 121 times
- Take it easy - RELAX, used 103 times
- Take the helm - STEER, used 78 times
- Take the honey and run - ELOPE, used 71 times
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