Trims (down)
The crossword clue "Trims (down)" is answered by PARES, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PARES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PARES answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PARES
Every other clue in this collection answered by PARES, most used first.
- Trims - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
- Whittles (down) - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Cuts back - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Peels - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Reduces - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
- Whittles - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Cuts (down) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Removes the rind from - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Skins - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Trims back - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Cuts back on - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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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