Words after bend or lend

The answer

ANEAR

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANEAR answer page.

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ANEAR

Every other clue in this collection answered by ANEAR, most used first.

• Lend ___ (listen) - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
• Lend ___ - used 51 times, most recently in 2024
• Keep __ to the ground - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Lend ___ (pay close attention) - used 15 times, most recently in 2012
• Lend ___ (heed) - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Lend ___ (hearken) - used 11 times, most recently in 1996
• Bend ___ (listen attentively) - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• Close: Poet. - used 10 times, most recently in 1967
• Have ___ to the ground - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• Close, in poetry - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Lend ___ (pay attention) - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Close by: Poet. - used 8 times, most recently in 1968
• Close, poetically - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Something to lend? - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Close by, poetically - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• What a listener lends - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Come after - ENSUE, used 147 times
• Look after - SEETO, used 97 times
• Looks after - TENDS, used 87 times
• Words to live by - CREDO, used 84 times
• Clarifying words - IMEAN, used 70 times
• At ___ for words - ALOSS, used 63 times

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