Argue a case
The crossword clue "Argue a case" is answered by PLEAD, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PLEAD
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Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PLEAD
Every other clue in this collection answered by PLEAD, most used first.
- Beg - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
- Implore - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Entreat - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Beseech - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Supplicate - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- Make one's case - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Make a case - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Answer a charge - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Appeal - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Ask on one's knees - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- "___ my case" - IREST, used 102 times
- Hopeless case - GONER, used 61 times
- Argue against - REBUT, used 26 times
- Best-case - IDEAL, used 18 times
- Make a case - ARGUE, used 16 times
- Best-case scenario - IDEAL, used 14 times
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