Box for oranges

The answer

CRATE

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

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CRATE

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

• Jalopy - used 70 times, most recently in 2025
• Shipping container - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Wooden box - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Box - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Packing box - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Bucket of bolts - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
• Container. - used 17 times, most recently in 1969
• Orange box - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Orange container - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Fruit container - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Shipping box - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• ___ & Barrel - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Forklift burden - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Wooden shipping box - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Wooden container - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Free-for-all - MELEE, used 223 times
• Make up (for) - ATONE, used 192 times
• For all to hear - ALOUD, used 121 times
• Fit for a king - REGAL, used 114 times
• Play for time - STALL, used 113 times
• For the birds? - AVIAN, used 103 times

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