Uses a drill
The crossword clue "Uses a drill" is answered by BORES, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BORES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BORES answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BORES
Every other clue in this collection answered by BORES, most used first.
- Causes to yawn - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Drills - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Puts to sleep - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Makes yawn - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Tiresome ones - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Tiresome talkers - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Yawn inducers - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Drills a hole - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Dull people - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Uses a keyboard - TYPES, used 39 times
- Uses a swizzle stick - STIRS, used 35 times
- "This __ a drill!" - ISNOT, used 19 times
- Uses a crowbar - PRIES, used 19 times
- Uses a sieve - SIFTS, used 16 times
- Uses a stopwatch - TIMES, used 15 times
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