Operate with a beam

The answer

LASE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LASE answer page.

Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2018. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LASE

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

• Emit coherent light - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• Use a surgical beam - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Zap with a beam - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut with a beam - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut with light - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Zap - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Zap with light - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Beam intensely - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Cut with a surgical beam - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Give off coherent light - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Zap, in a way - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Emit amplified light - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Shoot a light gun - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Use a surgical beam on - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Cut with a light - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Do some high-tech surgery - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Use intense light on - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

Related clues

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• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times
• With: Fr. - AVEC, used 132 times
• With skill - ABLY, used 127 times
• Mix with a spoon - STIR, used 117 times

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