Constrain
The crossword clue "Constrain" is answered by LIMIT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. 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
LIMIT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIMIT answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- KEEPIN (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for LIMIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by LIMIT, most used first.
- Put a cap on - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Restrict - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Boundary - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
- Cap - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Ceiling - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Maximum - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- "The sky's the ___!" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Confine - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- Maximum amount - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Calculus calculation - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Curtail. - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Maximum bet - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Maximum or minimum - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Maximum speed - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Utmost extent - used 7 times, most recently in 1992
- Constraint - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Last straw - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Upper bound - 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.
- Constrain. - IMPEL, used 9 times
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