Improved, as skills
The crossword clue "Improved, as skills" is answered by HONED, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HONED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HONED answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HONED
Every other clue in this collection answered by HONED, most used first.
- Sharpened - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
- Perfected - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Made sharper - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Put an edge on - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Gave an edge to - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Fine-tuned - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Put to the grindstone - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Whetted - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
- Improved an edge - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Used a strop - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
- Gave an edge - 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.
- Improved muscle definition - TONED, used 7 times
- Sharpens, as skills - HONES, used 7 times
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