Prune
The crossword clue "Prune" is answered by PARE, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PARE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PARE answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 7 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 PARE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PARE, most used first.
- Whittle down - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
- Trim - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Peel - used 74 times, most recently in 2025
- Cut back - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
- Whittle - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
- Reduce - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Trim down - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Remove the rind from - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Rid of rind - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Skin - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Shave - used 28 times, most recently in 2021
- Reduce, as expenses - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Scale down - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Cut (down) - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Remove the peel from - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Use a vegetable peeler - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Cut - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Remove, as a rind - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Use a fruit knife - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Peel, as an apple - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Trim away - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Remove the rind - used 9 times, most recently in 2001
- Reduce gradually. - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Remove rind - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Skin, as an apple - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Trim, as expenses - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Use a peeler - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Curtail - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Cut the fat - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Diminish - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Downsize - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Remove, as a peel - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut (down), as expenses - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Cut off in layers - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Peel, as potatoes - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Remove, as a fruit peel - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Remove the skin of - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Take a coat off - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Trim back - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- Prune - TRIM, used 20 times
- Prune, before drying - PLUM, used 9 times
- Prune - SNIP, used 8 times
- Prune - CLIP, used 7 times
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