Search (into)

The answer

DELVE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DELVE answer page.

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 5 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.

• INQUIRE (2 uses in xd)
• PROBE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for DELVE

Every other clue in this collection answered by DELVE, most used first.

• Dig (into) - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Dig - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Search deeply - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Investigate, with "into" - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Dig deeply - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Probe (into) - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Look (into) - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Investigate - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Dig deeply (into) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Probe - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• ___ into (investigate) - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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 into law - ENACT, used 206 times
• Vote into office - ELECT, used 176 times
• Put into law - ENACT, used 97 times
• Pass into law - ENACT, used 74 times
• Go into - ENTER, used 73 times
• Put into office - ELECT, used 58 times

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