Bad cut

The answer

GASH

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GASH answer page.

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 6 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.

• LACERATION (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for GASH

Every other clue in this collection answered by GASH, most used first.

• Deep cut - used 164 times, most recently in 2026
• Nasty cut - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Deep wound - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Big cut - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Long cut - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Serious cut - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Long, deep cut - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• It may need stitches - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Knife wound - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Cause for stitches - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Wound - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• Nasty wound - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Goes bad - ROTS, used 226 times
• "My bad!" - OOPS, used 191 times
• Narrow cut - SLIT, used 186 times
• "Too bad!" - ALAS, used 136 times
• Bad to the bone - EVIL, used 115 times
• Pork cut - LOIN, used 107 times

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