Make lean
The crossword clue "Make lean" is answered by DEFAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEFAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEFAT answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DEFAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEFAT, most used first.
- Make more lean - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Skim, as milk - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Make lean, in a way - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Make amends - ATONE, used 664 times
- Make into law - ENACT, used 206 times
- Make blank - ERASE, used 197 times
- Make up (for) - ATONE, used 192 times
- Make fun of - TEASE, used 161 times
- Make sense - ADDUP, used 137 times
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