Prevent, as a crisis
The crossword clue "Prevent, as a crisis" is answered by AVERT, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2026. 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
AVERT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVERT answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AVERT
Every other clue in this collection answered by AVERT, most used first.
- Ward off - used 152 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn away - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- Prevent - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn aside - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Keep from happening - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Stave off - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Head off - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Fend off - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Forestall - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Sidestep - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Deflect - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn away, as one's eyes - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Prevent from happening - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Dodge - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Manage to avoid - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Prevent, as disaster - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Turn aside, as a gaze - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Turn away, as one's gaze - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Prevent, as a disaster - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Prevent, as danger - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Dodge successfully - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Duck - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- "___ your eyes!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Circumvent - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Head off, as disaster - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Thwart - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Prevent - DETER, used 46 times
- Prevent legally - ESTOP, used 42 times
- Legally prevent - ESTOP, used 20 times
- Try to prevent - DETER, used 19 times
- Prevent, in legalese - ESTOP, used 15 times
- Prevent - DEBAR, used 12 times
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