Put in stitches

The answer

DARN

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

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• SEW (137 uses in xd)
• SEWED (27 uses in xd)
• SEWN (15 uses in xd)
• SUTURE (10 uses in xd)
• KNIT (8 uses in xd)

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
• Mend, as socks - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• 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
• 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.

• Put away - STOW, used 205 times
• Stitches - SEWS, used 107 times
• Put on the payroll - HIRE, used 105 times
• Put out - EMIT, used 103 times
• "Put ___ on it!" - ALID, used 95 times
• Put down - LAID, used 78 times

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