Roundabout way
The crossword clue "Roundabout way" is answered by DETOUR, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 2 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 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 2 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 route - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Way out - EGRESS, used 115 times
- In a way - SORTOF, used 53 times
- Get in the way of - IMPEDE, used 33 times
- Rub the wrong way - ABRADE, used 32 times
- One way to pay - INCASH, used 30 times
- Appear that way - SEEMTO, used 24 times
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