Ran, as dye
The crossword clue "Ran, as dye" is answered by BLED, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BLED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLED answer page.
Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BLED
Every other clue in this collection answered by BLED, most used first.
- Ran in the wash - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Ran, as colors - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Wasn't colorfast - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Extorted money from - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Ran - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Blackmailed - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Ran, as color - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Ran in the washer - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Extorted - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Ran in the laundry - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Needed a tourniquet - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Ran, as colors in the wash - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Needed a bandage - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Ran together, as colors - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Suffered from a cut - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Blue dye - ANIL, used 116 times
- Ran away - FLED, used 71 times
- Indigo dye - ANIL, used 44 times
- Aesopian also-ran - HARE, used 40 times
- ___-ran - ALSO, used 33 times
- Ran like heck - TORE, used 29 times
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