Use a shovel
The crossword clue "Use a shovel" is answered by DIG, a 3-letter entry. Used 98 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
DIG
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DIG answer page.
Used 98 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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