Grow fat
The crossword clue "Grow fat" is answered by BATTEN, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BATTEN
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BATTEN answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BATTEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by BATTEN, most used first.
- "___ down the hatches!" - used 14 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.
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