Made headway
The crossword clue "Made headway" is answered by GAINED, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GAINED
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GAINED answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GAINED
Every other clue in this collection answered by GAINED, most used first.
- Profited - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Made amends - ATONED, used 81 times
- Made level - EVENED, used 60 times
- Made over - REDONE, used 47 times
- Made up (for) - ATONED, used 38 times
- Made blank - ERASED, used 31 times
- Poorly made - SHODDY, used 21 times
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