Waste, as time
The crossword clue "Waste, as time" is answered by KILL, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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KILL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the KILL answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for KILL
Every other clue in this collection answered by KILL, most used first.
- Veto - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Slay - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- "To ___ a Mockingbird" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Pass idly, as time - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Put the kibosh on - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Dispatch - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Stop, as a newspaper story - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
Related clues
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- At any time - EVER, used 696 times
- A single time - ONCE, used 296 times
- "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
- A long time - AGES, used 156 times
- High time? - NOON, used 151 times
- "The Time Machine" race - ELOI, used 148 times
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