Carrying a weapon
The crossword clue "Carrying a weapon" is answered by ARMED, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ARMED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARMED answer page.
Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ARMED
Every other clue in this collection answered by ARMED, most used first.
- Ready for battle - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Packing heat - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Carrying a gun - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Packing - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Ready for war - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ forces - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Fortified - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
- Dangerous partner? - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Gun-toting - used 14 times, most recently in 2010
- Ready for action - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
- Ready to fight - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ to the teeth - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
- Equipped - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Prepared for battle - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ and dangerous - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Battle-ready - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Equipped for battle - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Packing a piece - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Pistol-packing - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Combat-ready - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Packing, so to speak - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Prepared. - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Dangerous companion - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Holding one's piece? - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Ready to rumble - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Turned on, as an alarm - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Cavalry weapon - SABER, used 88 times
- Jousting weapon - LANCE, used 82 times
- Knight's weapon - LANCE, used 59 times
- David's weapon - SLING, used 44 times
- Cavalry weapon - LANCE, used 39 times
- Primitive weapon - SPEAR, used 38 times
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