Broke ground, in a way
The crossword clue "Broke ground, in a way" is answered by HOED, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
HOED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOED answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HOED
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOED, most used first.
- Did some weeding - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Worked the soil - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Tackled weeds - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Broke ground - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Cultivated - used 12 times, most recently in 2010
- Did some gardening - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Broke new ground? - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Worked in the garden - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Worked the garden - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Did garden work - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Did groundbreaking work - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Did some garden work - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Did a garden chore - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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- Way off - AFAR, used 229 times
- Way out there - AFAR, used 104 times
- One way to run - AMOK, used 102 times
- "The Way We ___" - WERE, used 82 times
- Get __ the ground floor - INON, used 81 times
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