Remove the skin of

The answer

PARE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PARE answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Prune - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• 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
• 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.

• 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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