Leather piercers
The crossword clue "Leather piercers" is answered by AWLS, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AWLS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AWLS answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AWLS
Every other clue in this collection answered by AWLS, most used first.
- Piercing tools - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Hole-making tools - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
- Hole-punching tools - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Hole punchers - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Pointed tools - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
- Cobblers' tools - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Leatherworking tools - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Punching tools - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Saddler's tools - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hole makers - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Puncturing tools - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Shoemaker's tools - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Belt hole makers - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- Leather-punching tools - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Tools. - used 12 times, most recently in 1972
- Cobbler's tools - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Boring tools - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Sharp punches - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Belt maker's tools - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Cobbler's collection - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Pointy tools - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Saddlers' tools - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Beltmaking tools - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Leatherworker's tools - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Leatherworkers' tools - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Shoemakers' tools - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Some punches - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Poking tools - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tannery tools - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Woodworking tools - 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.
- Bookbinding leather - ROAN, used 34 times
- Works leather - TANS, used 12 times
- Makes leather - TANS, used 11 times
- Leather. - CALF, used 9 times
- Strip of shoe leather. - WELT, used 9 times
- Suffix for leather - ETTE, used 9 times
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