Defeated by a hair
The crossword clue "Defeated by a hair" is answered by EDGED, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
EDGED
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Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EDGED
Every other clue in this collection answered by EDGED, most used first.
- Barely defeated - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
- Beat by a whisker - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
- Trimmed the lawn - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Advanced gradually - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Lock of hair - TRESS, used 334 times
- Hair-raising - EERIE, used 94 times
- Hair net - SNOOD, used 55 times
- "___ of robins in her hair" - ANEST, used 32 times
- Braid of hair - PLAIT, used 30 times
- Hair piece - TRESS, used 30 times
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