Put to the grindstone
The crossword clue "Put to the grindstone" is answered by HONED, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
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HONED
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Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for HONED
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- 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
- 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
- Improved, as skills - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- In the know - AWARE, used 356 times
- Put up - ERECT, used 263 times
- To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
- Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
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