Cut down with an ax
The crossword clue "Cut down with an ax" is answered by HEW, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
HEW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HEW answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HEW
Every other clue in this collection answered by HEW, most used first.
- Chop down - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
- Chop - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut down - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Fell - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut with an ax - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Hack - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Take an ax to - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Cut, as wood - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Chop up - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Use an ax - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Shape with an axe - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Chop down with an ax - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Fell with an axe - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Give the ax? - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Hack down - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Use an axe - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Use an axe on - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Chop with an ax - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Conform (to) - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Cut with an axe - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Go chop-chop? - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Wield an ax - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Cut off - LOP, used 306 times
- Chow down - EAT, used 257 times
- Chowed down - ATE, used 231 times
- Down in the dumps - SAD, used 198 times
- Plopped down - SAT, used 194 times
- With it - HIP, used 149 times
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