Collect slowly
The crossword clue "Collect slowly" is answered by GLEAN, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GLEAN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GLEAN answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; 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 GLEAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by GLEAN, most used first.
- Gather bit by bit - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Collect bit by bit - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Gather - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Gather slowly - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Gather gradually - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Harvest - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Gather, as information - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Collect - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Collect little by little - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Cull - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Gather little by little - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Learn bit-by-bit - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Collect - AMASS, used 134 times
- Slowly, in music - LENTO, used 55 times
- Leaks slowly - SEEPS, used 37 times
- Destroy slowly - ERODE, used 32 times
- Slowly, on a score - LENTO, used 32 times
- Drink slowly - NURSE, used 27 times
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