Did groundbreaking work

The answer

HOED

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOED answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 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 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

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.

• Work units - ERGS, used 256 times
• Work hard - TOIL, used 183 times
• "I did it!" - TADA, used 128 times
• Musical work - OPUS, used 110 times
• Puts to work - USES, used 109 times
• "Look what I did!" - TADA, used 103 times

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