Crowbar, essentially
The crossword clue "Crowbar, essentially" is answered by LEVER, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LEVER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEVER answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LEVER
Every other clue in this collection answered by LEVER, most used first.
- Crowbar - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Prying tool - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Pry - used 16 times, most recently in 2004
- Crowbar, e.g. - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Jimmy, e.g. - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Pry bar - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of a voting machine - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Pie cuts, essentially - RADII, used 22 times
- Used a crowbar - PRIED, used 22 times
- Uses a crowbar - PRIES, used 19 times
- Spokes, essentially - RADII, used 10 times
- Amber, essentially - RESIN, used 8 times
- Emerald, essentially - BERYL, used 7 times
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