Maximum speed

The answer

LIMIT

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIMIT answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Constrain - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• 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.

• At full speed - AMAIN, used 76 times
• Musical speed - TEMPO, used 40 times
• Undue speed - HASTE, used 39 times
• Reeves of "Speed" - KEANU, used 38 times
• Speed skater Ohno - APOLO, used 31 times
• Speed - HASTE, used 29 times

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