Carpenter's pin
The crossword clue "Carpenter's pin" is answered by DOWEL, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1944. 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
DOWEL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DOWEL answer page.
Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1944. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DOWEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by DOWEL, most used first.
- Wooden peg - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Wooden pin - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Wooden rod - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Carpentry pin - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Carpentry peg - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Carpenter's tool - LEVEL, used 36 times
- Carpenter's tool - PLANE, used 24 times
- Place for a pin - LAPEL, used 24 times
- Gunwale pin - THOLE, used 19 times
- Pin place - LAPEL, used 15 times
- Bowling pin wood - MAPLE, used 14 times
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