Use a pestle
The crossword clue "Use a pestle" is answered by MASH, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MASH
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MASH answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for MASH
Every other clue in this collection answered by MASH, most used first.
- Prepare potatoes - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Pulverize - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Sitcom set in Korea - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Pulverize potatoes - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Prepare, as potatoes - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Crush - used 17 times, most recently in 2013
- Reduce to a pulp - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Pulverize, as potatoes - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Prepare potatoes, in a way - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Beat to a pulp - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Cattle feed - used 11 times, most recently in 1998
- Prepare spuds - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Pulp - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Squish, as potatoes - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn to pulp - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Alan Alda sitcom - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Crush, as potatoes - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Livestock feed - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- "Monster ___" - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
- Flatten - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Moonshine mix - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Pound - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Prepare, as avocados for guacamole - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Prepare potatoes, perhaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Use a swizzle stick - STIR, used 114 times
- Use a keyboard - TYPE, used 113 times
- Use scissors - SNIP, used 81 times
- Not in use - IDLE, used 50 times
- Use a letter opener - SLIT, used 32 times
- Use a stopwatch - TIME, used 29 times
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