Mend, as socks

The answer

DARN

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

Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DARN

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

• "Phooey!" - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• "Rats!" - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• "Shucks!" - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
• Mend - used 36 times, most recently in 2019
• "Shoot!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nuts!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Mend socks - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Mild oath - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• "Doggone it!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Mild expletive - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• Mended place. - used 14 times, most recently in 1968
• "Drat!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "Dagnabbit!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "Fiddlesticks!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Repair, as a sock - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "Fudge!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Put in stitches - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Mend a sock - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Repair socks - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• "Blast!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "Doggone!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• "Oh, heck!" - 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.

• Mend - HEAL, used 41 times
• Socks - HOSE, used 36 times
• Tips of socks - TOES, used 29 times
• Set of socks - PAIR, used 14 times
• Darn, as socks - MEND, used 13 times
• Be on the mend - HEAL, used 11 times

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