Put off until later
The crossword clue "Put off until later" is answered by DEFER, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus.
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DEFER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEFER answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DEFER
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEFER, most used first.
- Postpone - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
- Put off - used 99 times, most recently in 2025
- Table - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Put on hold - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Yield - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
- Hold off - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Reschedule for later - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Postpone an action - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Put off till later - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Put on the back burner - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Schedule for later - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Shelve - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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 up - ERECT, used 263 times
- Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
- Gives off - EMITS, used 178 times
- Ward off - AVERT, used 152 times
- Put in office - ELECT, used 120 times
- Cut off - SEVER, used 104 times
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