Beat by a whisker
The crossword clue "Beat by a whisker" is answered by EDGED, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus.
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EDGED
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Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for EDGED
Every other clue in this collection answered by EDGED, most used first.
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- Double-___ sword - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Barely beat - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Moved sideways - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Bordered - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Narrowly defeated - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Nosed (out) - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
- Sidled - used 21 times, most recently in 2019
- Sharp-___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Trimmed - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Moved cautiously - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Sharpened. - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
- Defeated, but barely - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Moved gradually - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Just beat - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Moved laterally - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Defeated by a hair - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Trimmed the lawn - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Advanced gradually - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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