___ off (cut away)

The answer

LOP

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOP answer page.

Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LOP

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

• Cut off - used 306 times, most recently in 2026
• Prune - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
• Chop (off) - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Hack (off) - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
• Take a bough - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
• Sever - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Trim - used 22 times, most recently in 2006
• Slice (off) - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Cut off, as branches - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Truncate - used 18 times, most recently in 2007
• Chop (off), as a branch - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut off, as a branch - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• ___-eared - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Apt rhyme for "chop" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Droop - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
• ___ off (sever) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ off (prune) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut short - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Do some pruning - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Hang loosely - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
• Hack - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Prune, as a branch - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Apt rhyme of "chop" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Cut back - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Remove, as branches - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Remove some branches - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Shear (off) - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Trim (off) - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Put away - ATE, used 208 times
• Took a load off - SAT, used 198 times
• Away from WSW - ENE, used 155 times
• Take a load off - SIT, used 151 times
• Put away - EAT, used 140 times
• Polished off - ATE, used 129 times

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