Broke new ground?
The crossword clue "Broke new ground?" is answered by HOED, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HOED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOED answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- INNOVATED (1 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- Broke ground, in a way - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Did a garden chore - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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- "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
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- Not new - USED, used 132 times
- New Rochelle college - IONA, used 105 times
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