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CLIMB

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLIMB answer page.

Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• RISE (72 uses in xd)
• ASCEND (29 uses in xd)
• AVIATE (7 uses in xd)
• SOAR (6 uses in xd)
• SCALE (5 uses in xd)

Other clues for CLIMB

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

• Scale - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• Ascend - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Rise - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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