Did some garden work

The answer

HOED

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 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.

• RAKED (1 uses in xd)
• WEEDED (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
• 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
• 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
• Biblical garden - EDEN, used 236 times
• Genesis garden - EDEN, used 213 times
• Work hard - TOIL, used 183 times
• "I did it!" - TADA, used 128 times
• Some - AFEW, used 116 times

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