Hands on deck
The crossword clue "Hands on deck" is answered by CREW, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CREW
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CREW answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 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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Other clues for CREW
Every other clue in this collection answered by CREW, most used first.
- Rowing team - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Ship's staff - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- All hands on deck - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
- Captain's staff - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Hands - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Work group - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Rowing sport - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ship's personnel - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Staff - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Kind of cut - used 8 times, most recently in 2002
- Airplane staff - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- College sport. - used 7 times, most recently in 1969
- Gang - used 7 times, most recently in 2000
- Posse - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Work gang - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
- Company - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Deck hands - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Flight staff - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Group of workers - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Water sport - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- On deck - NEXT, used 94 times
- Old hands - PROS, used 33 times
- Deck quartet - ACES, used 30 times
- Deck wood - TEAK, used 29 times
- Put your hands together - CLAP, used 29 times
- When both hands are up - NOON, used 25 times
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