Struck a stance

The answer

POSED

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the POSED answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for POSED

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

• Sat - used 25 times, most recently in 2018
• Did some modeling - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Sat for a portrait - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Propounded - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Presented, as a problem - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• Sat for an artist - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Sat for a photo - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Put forward - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Not candid - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Prepared to be photographed - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Sat for - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Watched the birdie - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
• Prepared to be shot - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Prepared for a photo - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Prepared for a selfie - 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.

• Struck - SMOTE, used 49 times
• Struck out - DELED, used 32 times
• Struck down - SMOTE, used 18 times
• Struck down, biblically - SMOTE, used 16 times
• "Buffalo Stance" singer Cherry - NENEH, used 13 times
• Struck, old-style - SMOTE, used 10 times

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