Carrying a burden
The crossword clue "Carrying a burden" is answered by LADEN, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LADEN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LADEN answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LADEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by LADEN, most used first.
- Burdened - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
- Weighed down - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
- Weighted down - used 20 times, most recently in 2017
- Carrying cargo - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Encumbered - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Filled with cargo - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Heavily burdened - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Burdened (with) - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Burdened down - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Filled with freight - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Loaded down - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Weighed down (with) - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Filled - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Fraught - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Bearing freight - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Full of cargo - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Beasts of burden - ASSES, used 106 times
- Carrying a gun - ARMED, used 27 times
- Beast of burden - LLAMA, used 19 times
- Beast of burden - BURRO, used 18 times
- Beast of burden. - CAMEL, used 15 times
- Carrying a weapon - ARMED, used 15 times
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