Handles hardship
The crossword clue "Handles hardship" is answered by COPES, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. 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
COPES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COPES answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for COPES
Every other clue in this collection answered by COPES, most used first.
- Makes do - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Gets by - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Manages somehow - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Deals (with) - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Manages - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Deals with adversity - 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.
- Sword handles - HILTS, used 45 times
- Hardship - RIGOR, used 39 times
- Accustom to hardship - INURE, used 21 times
- Accustom to hardship (Var.) - ENURE, used 19 times
- Handles roughly - MAULS, used 19 times
- Handles - NAMES, used 18 times
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