Strike

The answer

DELETE

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DELETE answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 7 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.

• HIT (27 uses in xd)
• SMITE (25 uses in xd)
• SLAP (19 uses in xd)
• APOSE (15 uses in xd)
• XOUT (13 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Cut - used 6 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.

• Strike caller - UMPIRE, used 31 times
• Strike zones? - ALLEYS, used 9 times
• Kind of strike - HUNGER, used 6 times

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