Roundabout route
The crossword clue "Roundabout route" is answered by DETOUR, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DETOUR
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DETOUR answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DETOUR
Every other clue in this collection answered by DETOUR, most used first.
- Roundabout path - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Alternate route - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Roundabout way - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
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.
- Not roundabout - DIRECT, used 23 times
- Route - COURSE, used 7 times
- Roundabout - ROTARY, used 6 times
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