Attacked on all sides

The answer

BESET

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

Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BESET

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

• Plague - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Harass - used 64 times, most recently in 2020
• Attack from all sides - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Under siege - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Assail - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Hem in - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Under attack - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Surround - used 19 times, most recently in 2015
• Trouble - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Attack - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
• Surrounded - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Assailed - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Attack on all sides - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Hemmed in - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Harried - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Assailed on all sides - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Plagued (by) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Trouble persistently - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Plagued - 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.

• Free-for-all - MELEE, used 223 times
• "All kidding __ . . ." - ASIDE, used 182 times
• "___ we all?" - ARENT, used 149 times
• All thumbs - INEPT, used 144 times
• For all to hear - ALOUD, used 121 times
• Attacked - HADAT, used 79 times

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