Punish by fine
The crossword clue "Punish by fine" is answered by AMERCE, a 6-letter entry. Used 14 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1947. 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
AMERCE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AMERCE answer page.
Used 14 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1947. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for AMERCE
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- Punish by fining - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Fine - used 9 times, most recently in 2004
- Punish with a fine - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
- Punish arbitrarily - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Fine point - DETAIL, used 25 times
- Fine wool - MERINO, used 24 times
- Fine point - NICETY, used 20 times
- Fine-tune - ADJUST, used 19 times
- Fine-tunes - TWEAKS, used 16 times
- Fine fiddles - AMATIS, used 12 times
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