Took to one's heels
The crossword clue "Took to one's heels" is answered by FLED, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
FLED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLED answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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 - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Ran away from - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- 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.
- Took to court - SUED, used 187 times
- ___ one's time (wait) - BIDE, used 89 times
- Took advantage of - USED, used 81 times
- Took the bus - RODE, used 81 times
- Lose one's footing - SLIP, used 74 times
- Toot one's own horn - BRAG, used 65 times
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