Ran
The crossword clue "Ran" is answered by BLED, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 8 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 19 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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, as dye - used 14 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.
- Ran away - FLED, used 71 times
- Aesopian also-ran - HARE, used 40 times
- ___-ran - ALSO, used 33 times
- Ran like heck - TORE, used 29 times
- Ran a tab - OWED, used 24 times
- Aesop's also-ran - HARE, used 23 times
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