Throw things at
The crossword clue "Throw things at" is answered by PELT, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1955. 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
PELT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PELT answer page.
Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 4 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.
- PELTER (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for PELT
Every other clue in this collection answered by PELT, most used first.
- Hide - used 96 times, most recently in 2025
- Bombard - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Skin - used 31 times, most recently in 2017
- Trapper's prize - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Animal skin - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Animal hide - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Trapper's trophy - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
- Attack, as with snowballs - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Hit with hailstones - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Attack with snowballs - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Hit with snowballs - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Trapper's item - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Bombard, as with snowballs - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Clobber with snowballs - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Stone - used 12 times, most recently in 2009
- Hit with snowballs, say - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Strike repeatedly - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Fur - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Hit, as with hailstones - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Bombard with snowballs - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Hit, as with snowballs - 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.
- Sign of things to come - OMEN, used 164 times
- Throw off - EMIT, used 112 times
- Throw - TOSS, used 86 times
- Throw in the towel - QUIT, used 63 times
- Inter ___ (among other things) - ALIA, used 60 times
- Just one of those things? - THAT, used 54 times
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