Read closely, with "over"

The answer

PORE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PORE answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PORE

Every other clue in this collection answered by PORE, most used first.

• Skin opening - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
• Tiny skin opening - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Tiny opening - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Minute opening - used 29 times, most recently in 2022
• Skin feature - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Dermal opening - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Sponge opening - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Sponge feature - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Scrutinize, with "over" - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
• Sweat spot - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Epidermal opening - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Study, with "over" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Sweat source - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Hit the books - used 10 times, most recently in 1992
• Read closely (over) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Hole in the head? - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Opening - used 9 times, most recently in 1997
• Opening for a dermatologist - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Orifice - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Small opening - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• ___ over (read carefully) - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Pumice feature - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Leaf opening - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Ponder - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Ponder (over) - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Read (over) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Study intently (with "over") - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Hole in your head - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Study (over). - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Sweat outlet - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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 over - REDO, used 404 times
• All over again - ANEW, used 269 times
• Over again - ANEW, used 247 times
• "Hey, over here!" - PSST, used 232 times
• Hand over - CEDE, used 187 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times

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