Make a break for it
The crossword clue "Make a break for it" is answered by BOLT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
BOLT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOLT answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- FLYTHECOOP (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for BOLT
Every other clue in this collection answered by BOLT, most used first.
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- Leave suddenly - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Leave in a hurry - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Piece of hardware - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Roll of cloth. - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
- Flash of lightning - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Make a run for it - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Roll of fabric - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Hightail it - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Lightning unit - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Lightning flash - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Run away - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Cloth roll - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Door fastener - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Flee - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Gulp down - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
- It may come from the blue - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- It may come from out of the blue - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Lightning ___ - 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.
- For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
- Make over - REDO, used 404 times
- Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
- Take a break - REST, used 268 times
- "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
- Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
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