Put to sleep, perhaps
The crossword clue "Put to sleep, perhaps" is answered by BORE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
BORE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BORE answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BORE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BORE, most used first.
- Drill - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Snoozefest - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Tiresome person - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Yawn inducer - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Drill a hole - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Use a drill - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Dull speaker - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Put to sleep - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Tiresome one - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
- Party pooper - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Yawner - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Tiresome speaker - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Caliber. - used 14 times, most recently in 1993
- Cause to yawn - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Make yawn - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Use an auger - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Drag - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Cylinder diameter - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Dull person - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Tedious sort - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Uninteresting person - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Wet blanket - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Dullard - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Yawn-inducing speaker - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Carried - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Tedious fellow - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Yawn producer - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Drill (into) - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Dull fellow - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Total snoozefest - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Induce yawning - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Make a hole - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Tedious person - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tiresome talker - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Yawn-inducing sort - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Put away - STOW, used 205 times
- Put on the payroll - HIRE, used 105 times
- Put out - EMIT, used 103 times
- Sleep like ___ - ALOG, used 96 times
- "Put ___ on it!" - ALID, used 95 times
- Deep sleep - COMA, used 87 times
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