Get rid of
The crossword clue "Get rid of" is answered by DITCH, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DITCH
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DITCH answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DITCH
Every other clue in this collection answered by DITCH, most used first.
- Abandon - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep-six - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Leave in the lurch - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Trench - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- You can dig it - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Get up - ARISE, used 204 times
- "Get lost!" - SCRAM, used 142 times
- Get out of bed - ARISE, used 110 times
- Get around - EVADE, used 91 times
- Get away from - ELUDE, used 73 times
- Get-go - ONSET, used 60 times
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