Used a lever
The crossword clue "Used a lever" is answered by PRIED, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PRIED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PRIED answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PRIED
Every other clue in this collection answered by PRIED, most used first.
- Used a crowbar - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Was nosy - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Snooped - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Asked nosy questions - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Got nosy - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Nosed around - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Used up - SPENT, used 84 times
- Used a keyboard - TYPED, used 57 times
- Used a broom - SWEPT, used 49 times
- Used a stopwatch - TIMED, used 33 times
- Get used (to) - INURE, used 30 times
- Used oars - ROWED, used 26 times
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