Thug
The crossword clue "Thug" is answered by BRUTE, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BRUTE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BRUTE answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BRUTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BRUTE, most used first.
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- Big bully - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Savage - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Yahoo - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- ___ force - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Animal - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Caesar's last word - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Barbarian - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Kind of force - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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