Confine, with "in"
The crossword clue "Confine, with "in"" is answered by HEM, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HEM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HEM answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HEM
Every other clue in this collection answered by HEM, most used first.
- Skirt edge - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
- Haw's partner - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
- Clothes line - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ and haw - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Skirt's edge - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Height of fashion? - used 37 times, most recently in 2021
- Bottom line? - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Border - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Dress edge - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Clothing line - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Garment border - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Fashion line? - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Edge - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
- Sewn edge - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Skirt border - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Skirt part - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Garment edge - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Stitched border - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ and haw (stall for time) - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Haw partner - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Alter, in a way - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Haw's companion - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Line of fashion - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Skirt feature - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Skirt line - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Bottom of a skirt - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Line of clothing - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Skirt bottom - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Tailor's edge - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Tailor's line - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Tucked-in part of a dress shirt - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Be indecisive - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Edge of a skirt - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Bottom edge of a skirt - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Designer's bottom line? - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Drapery edge - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Shorten - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Tailor's border - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- With it - HIP, used 149 times
- Prefix with center - EPI, used 134 times
- Work with - USE, used 117 times
- Prefix with natal - NEO, used 100 times
- Go out with - SEE, used 98 times
- Barely manage, with "out" - EKE, used 90 times
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