Whittled (down)
The crossword clue "Whittled (down)" is answered by PARED, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PARED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PARED answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PARED
Every other clue in this collection answered by PARED, most used first.
- Peeled - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Trimmed - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Trimmed down - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Reduced - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Whittled - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Cut back - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Cut down - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Skinned - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
- Used a vegetable peeler - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Removed the rind from - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Did a KP chore - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Peeled with a knife - 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.
- Wear down - ERODE, used 180 times
- Run-down - SEEDY, used 178 times
- Weighed down - LADEN, used 122 times
- Duck down - EIDER, used 83 times
- Die down - ABATE, used 82 times
- Bogged down - MIRED, used 73 times
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