Slight lead
The crossword clue "Slight lead" is answered by EDGE, a 4-letter entry. Used 25 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EDGE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDGE answer page.
Used 25 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EDGE
Every other clue in this collection answered by EDGE, most used first.
- Advantage - used 385 times, most recently in 2026
- Border - used 232 times, most recently in 2026
- Rim - used 180 times, most recently in 2026
- Slight advantage - used 140 times, most recently in 2026
- Brink - used 136 times, most recently in 2026
- Upper hand - used 133 times, most recently in 2026
- Perimeter - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
- Competitive advantage - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Boundary - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Periphery - used 62 times, most recently in 2025
- Outer boundary - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Outer limit - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Leg up - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Lip - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Sharpness - used 44 times, most recently in 2024
- Barely beat - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Keenness - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
- Margin - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Nose (out) - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Verge - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
- Beat by a whisker - used 26 times, most recently in 2019
- Barely defeat - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Fringe - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Precipice - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Just beat - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Move sideways - used 21 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.
- Have the lead - STAR, used 59 times
- Lead-in to boy or girl - ATTA, used 58 times
- Play the lead - STAR, used 55 times
- Slight - SNUB, used 52 times
- Holiday lead-ins - EVES, used 48 times
- Take the lead - STAR, used 46 times
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