Ran
The crossword clue "Ran" is answered by FLED, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLED answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 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 FLED
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLED, most used first.
- Ran away - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Took off - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Skedaddled - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Escaped - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Hightailed it - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Skipped town - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Decamped - used 15 times, most recently in 2005
- Ran off - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Split - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Got out of Dodge - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Vanished. - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
- Made tracks - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Took a powder - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Took it on the lam - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Vamoosed - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Absconded - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Bolted - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Ran away from - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Took to one's heels - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Beat it - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Headed for the hills - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Took to the hills - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Went on the lam - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Ran in the wash - BLED, used 102 times
- Ran, as colors - BLED, used 41 times
- Aesopian also-ran - HARE, used 40 times
- ___-ran - ALSO, used 33 times
- Ran like heck - TORE, used 29 times
- Ran a tab - OWED, used 24 times
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