Stick in one's ___ (cause resentment)

The answer

CRAW

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CRAW

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

• Bird's crop - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
• Sticking point? - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Stick in one's ___ - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Gullet - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Crop - used 16 times, most recently in 2002
• Animal stomach - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
• Stick in one's ___ (rankle) - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Bird's gullet - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird crop - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Avian crop - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Bird's pouch - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Crop of a bird - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Animal's stomach - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
• Sticking point, metaphorically - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Sticking place - used 7 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Stick around - STAY, used 171 times
• Walking stick - CANE, used 162 times
• Use a swizzle stick - STIR, used 114 times
• ___ one's time (wait) - BIDE, used 89 times
• Lose one's footing - SLIP, used 74 times
• Toot one's own horn - BRAG, used 65 times

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