Pried (into)

The answer

NOSED

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

Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 3 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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• SNOOPED (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NOSED

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

• Snooped (around) - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Snooped - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Pried - used 16 times, most recently in 2014
• "Rudolph the Red-___ Reindeer" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Nuzzled - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• ___ around (snooped) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Barely beat, with "out" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Hard-___ (tough) - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Edged (out) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Was a snoop - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Poked (around) - 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.

• Make into law - ENACT, used 206 times
• Vote into office - ELECT, used 176 times
• Put into law - ENACT, used 97 times
• Pass into law - ENACT, used 74 times
• Go into - ENTER, used 73 times
• Put into office - ELECT, used 58 times

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