Make a case
The crossword clue "Make a case" is answered by PLEAD, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. 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
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLEAD answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- Argue a case - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- 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.
- Make amends - ATONE, used 664 times
- Make into law - ENACT, used 206 times
- Make blank - ERASE, used 197 times
- Make up (for) - ATONE, used 192 times
- Make fun of - TEASE, used 161 times
- Make sense - ADDUP, used 137 times
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