"Stop, sailor!"

The answer

AVAST

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

Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AVAST

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

• Nautical command - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Sailor's "Stop!" - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• "Stop!" at sea - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Sailor's cry - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Salt's "Halt!" - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "Halt!" to a salt - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Nautical call - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Nautical "Halt!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "Halt, salt!" - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cease!" at sea - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Sailor's "Halt!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Nautical cry - used 18 times, most recently in 2009
• "Halt!" at sea - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "Halt!" from a salt - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Stop: Naut. - used 11 times, most recently in 1984
• Nautical "Stop!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Pirate's "Stop!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Stop!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Sailor's call - used 9 times, most recently in 2000
• Sea call - used 9 times, most recently in 1973
• Captain's command - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Skipper's "Stop!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Mariner's "Halt!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "Cease!" on the seas - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "Halt, matey!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Halt!" on the seas - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Seafarer's interjection - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Seaman's "Stop!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "Stop," to a sailor - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Stop - CEASE, used 181 times
• Stop on ___ - ADIME, used 53 times
• Train stop - DEPOT, used 44 times
• Caravan stop - OASIS, used 40 times
• Elevator stop - FLOOR, used 40 times
• Put a stop to - CEASE, used 29 times

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