Worn-down pencils
The crossword clue "Worn-down pencils" is answered by NUBS, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NUBS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NUBS answer page.
Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NUBS
Every other clue in this collection answered by NUBS, most used first.
- Gists - used 20 times, most recently in 2022
- Well-worn pencils - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Lumps - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Pencil remnants - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Small lumps - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Central points - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Touched down - ALIT, used 243 times
- Pack down - TAMP, used 216 times
- Came down - ALIT, used 186 times
- Turn down - DENY, used 119 times
- Came down to earth - ALIT, used 115 times
- Stepped down - ALIT, used 108 times
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