Gets better, as a wound
The crossword clue "Gets better, as a wound" is answered by HEALS, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
HEALS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HEALS answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HEALS
Every other clue in this collection answered by HEALS, most used first.
- Gets better - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Makes well - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Makes sound - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
- Cures - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
- Recovers - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Gets well - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Mends - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Makes better - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- "Time ___ all wounds" - used 9 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.
- Gets closer to - NEARS, used 79 times
- Perform better than - OUTDO, used 79 times
- Change for the better - AMEND, used 76 times
- Gets up - RISES, used 70 times
- Wound up - TENSE, used 57 times
- Make better - AMEND, used 48 times
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