Cause for stitches

The answer

GASH

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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.

• WOUND (3 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
• Bad cut - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• 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
• 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.

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• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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