Barrel staves
The crossword clue "Barrel staves" is answered by LAGS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LAGS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LAGS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LAGS
Every other clue in this collection answered by LAGS, most used first.
- Falls behind - used 149 times, most recently in 2026
- Trails - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Doesn't keep up - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Hangs back - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Brings up the rear - used 19 times, most recently in 2017
- Falls back - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Straggles - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Dawdles - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Trails behind - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Dillydallies - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Runs behind - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Fails to keep up - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Gets behind - used 7 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.
- Barrel of laughs - RIOT, used 83 times
- Wine barrel - CASK, used 55 times
- Barrel - CASK, used 29 times
- Bottom of the barrel - LEES, used 27 times
- Bottom-of-the-barrel bit - DREG, used 21 times
- Wine barrel sediment - LEES, used 17 times
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