Portside

The answer

LEFT

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

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LEFT

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

• Departed - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Took off - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Remaining - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Went away - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Headed out - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Hit the road - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Exited - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Flew the coop - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Not right - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Split - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Took a powder - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• It's not right - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• It's just not right - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Liberals, with "the" - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Opposite of right - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Skedaddled - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Boxing blow. - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Didn't stick around - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Stead - LIEU, used 445 times
• Secular - LAIC, used 392 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• "___ we forget" - LEST, used 354 times
• Minus - LESS, used 321 times

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