Use a drill
The crossword clue "Use a drill" is answered by BORE, a 4-letter entry. Used 23 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
BORE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BORE answer page.
Used 23 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 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
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.
- Use a swizzle stick - STIR, used 114 times
- Use a keyboard - TYPE, used 113 times
- Use scissors - SNIP, used 81 times
- Not in use - IDLE, used 50 times
- Use a letter opener - SLIT, used 32 times
- Use a stopwatch - TIME, used 29 times
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