Start of a challenge

The answer

IDARE

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

Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 7 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.

• "Do ___ to eat a peach?": Eliot - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• "Do ___?" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• "Do ___ to eat a peach?" (T.S. Eliot) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "-- 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.

• Start - ONSET, used 209 times
• Start of a Dickens title - ATALE, used 42 times
• "Challenge accepted!" - ITSON, used 37 times
• Start - BEGIN, used 36 times
• Start of Caesar's boast - ICAME, used 35 times
• Start of a toast - HERES, used 31 times

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