Active
The crossword clue "Active" is answered by BUSY, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BUSY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BUSY answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BUSY
Every other clue in this collection answered by BUSY, most used first.
- Occupied - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Tied up - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Hard at work - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Not free - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- In use - used 7 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.
- Active one - DOER, used 97 times
- Active person - DOER, used 67 times
- Not active - IDLE, used 50 times
- Active sort - DOER, used 43 times
- Active Sicilian volcano - ETNA, used 30 times
- Active Italian volcano - ETNA, used 27 times
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