Escape
The crossword clue "Escape" is answered by EVADE, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EVADE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EVADE answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for EVADE
Every other clue in this collection answered by EVADE, most used first.
- Dodge - used 202 times, most recently in 2026
- Sidestep - used 133 times, most recently in 2026
- Steer clear of - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
- Get around - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Duck - used 84 times, most recently in 2025
- Circumvent - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Give the slip to - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
- Get away from - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Skirt - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Weasel out of - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Avoid - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Give the slip - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Stay away from - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Escape from - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Get out of - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Keep away from - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Slip away from - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Elude - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Shirk - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
- Avoid doing - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
- Slip past - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Baffle. - used 11 times, most recently in 1996
- Escape by trickery - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Manage to avoid - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Shake off - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Avoid, as capture - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Dance around - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Escape, as detection - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Fail to pay, as taxes - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Avoid capture - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Dodge, as a question - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Dodge, as taxes - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Duck, as an issue - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Shake - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Shun, as responsibility - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Use a loophole - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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.
- Escape - ELUDE, used 24 times
- Escape from - ELUDE, used 21 times
- Cut off from escape - HEMIN, used 13 times
- Unable to escape - TREED, used 9 times
- Escape the notice of - ELUDE, used 8 times
- Castaways' escape vehicles - RAFTS, used 7 times
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