"Do ___ to eat a peach?" (T.S. Eliot)

The answer

IDARE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDARE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IDARE

Every other clue in this collection answered by IDARE, most used first.

• Start of a challenge - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Do ___ to eat a peach?": Eliot - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• "Do ___?" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• "-- you!" (challenger's cry) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "Come on, ___ you!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• "___ you!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2005

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.

• Eat away - ERODE, used 162 times
• Eat away at - ERODE, used 122 times
• Eat into - ERODE, used 51 times
• Peach ___ - MELBA, used 39 times
• "Jack __ could eat no fat..." - SPRAT, used 30 times
• Unable to eat another bite - SATED, used 23 times

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