Stick in the mud
The crossword clue "Stick in the mud" is answered by MIRE, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
MIRE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MIRE answer page.
Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 14 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.
Other clues for MIRE
Every other clue in this collection answered by MIRE, most used first.
- Bog - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Bog down - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep mud - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Swampy ground - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Entangle - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Swamp - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Swampy terrain - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Muck - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Swampy area - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Boggy area - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Soggy ground - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Mucky stuff - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Mud - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
- Morass - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Ooze - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Boggy ground - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Mucky ground - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Muddy area - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Thick mud - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Tract of wet ground - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Muck's partner - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Muddy ground - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Slush. - used 8 times, most recently in 1986
- Swampland - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Swampy spot - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Boggy earth - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Get stuck - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Where to wallow - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Gooey ground - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Marshy ground - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Muck partner - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Mucky earth - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- "No time to wallow in the ___" (Doors lyric) - 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.
- Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
- In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
- On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
- From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
- Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
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