Job for a sleuth

The answer

CASE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CASE answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CASE

Every other clue in this collection answered by CASE, most used first.

• Instance - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Detective's assignment - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Beer buy - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Lawyer's assignment - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Job for Holmes - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Phone protector - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Wholesale quantity - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Docket item - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Example - used 16 times, most recently in 2013
• Job for a lawyer - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Four six-packs - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Job for a detective - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Detective's job - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Lawyer's job - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Violin holder - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Beer purchase - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Job for Perry Mason - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Docket entry - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Job for Sherlock - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Situation. - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
• Bulk buy - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Mason's job - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
• Matter of grammar - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
• Sherlock's assignment - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Violin container - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Check out before a heist - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Container - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Guitar holder - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Gumshoe's job - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Legal job - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Senator from South Dakota. - used 8 times, most recently in 1956
• 24 cans of beer - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Assignment for a lawyer - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Beer bash buy - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Big beer buy - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Grammatical category - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Pillow covering - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Social worker's assignment - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• State of affairs. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
• 12 bottles of wine - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Bulk beer buy - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Glasses holder - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Job for a gumshoe - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Job for Poirot - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Legal matter - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Mason's work - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Word in many Perry Mason titles - used 6 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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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