Cut
The crossword clue "Cut" is answered by DELETE, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DELETE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DELETE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 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 DELETE
Every other clue in this collection answered by DELETE, most used first.
- Strike out - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Take out - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Erase - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Computer key - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Expunge - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
- Cross out - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Remove - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Backspace over - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Strike - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Cancel - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Get rid of - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Take out text - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Eliminate - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Keyboard key - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Wipe out - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- X - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- X out - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
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.
- "Cut that out!" - STOPIT, used 47 times
- Cut out - EXCISE, used 21 times
- Cut in half - BISECT, used 20 times
- Cut into - INCISE, used 18 times
- Cut canines - TEETHE, used 14 times
- Cut with a scalpel - INCISE, used 13 times
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