Apply, as elbow grease
The crossword clue "Apply, as elbow grease" is answered by EXERT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
EXERT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EXERT answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EXERT
Every other clue in this collection answered by EXERT, most used first.
- Bring to bear - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
- Put forth - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Apply, as pressure - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Wield - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
- Put forth, as effort - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Wield, as influence - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Put forth effort - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Put into action - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Apply - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Put to use - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Wield, as power - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Strain - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Use, as influence - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Apply, as force - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Use, as force - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Exercise. - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Make an effort - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
- Apply, as effort - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Put out - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Wield, as force - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Put forth, as energy - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Put forth, as strength - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Exercise, as influence - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Apply, as influence - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Apply to - USEON, used 38 times
- Elbow - NUDGE, used 38 times
- Elbow room - SPACE, used 25 times
- Use elbow grease on - SCOUR, used 19 times
- Clean with elbow grease - SCRUB, used 16 times
- Clean with elbow grease - SCOUR, used 15 times
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