Pressure
The crossword clue "Pressure" is answered by DURESS, a 6-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DURESS
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DURESS answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DURESS
Every other clue in this collection answered by DURESS, most used first.
- Coercion - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Arm-twisting - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Compulsion. - used 16 times, most recently in 2010
- Undue pressure - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Constraint - used 9 times, most recently in 1978
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.
- Pressure - STRESS, used 25 times
- Pressure - LEANON, used 13 times
- Applies, as pressure - EXERTS, used 12 times
- Apply pressure to - LEANON, used 11 times
- Atmospheric pressure line - ISOBAR, used 10 times
- Grace under pressure - APLOMB, used 8 times
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