It may need stitches
The crossword clue "It may need stitches" is answered by GASH, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
GASH
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GASH answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- 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.
- Pressing need - IRON, used 116 times
- Stitches - SEWS, used 107 times
- They may clash - EGOS, used 78 times
- In stitches - SEWN, used 75 times
- Baker's need - OVEN, used 72 times
- Tug-of-war need - ROPE, used 72 times
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