Lying face downward
The crossword clue "Lying face downward" is answered by PRONE, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PRONE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PRONE answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PRONE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PRONE, most used first.
- Lying facedown - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Lying flat - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
- Inclined - used 27 times, most recently in 2021
- Likely (to) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Disposed - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Lying face down - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Face down - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Inclined (to) - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Disposed (to). - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Likely - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Accident-___ (clumsy) - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Liable (to) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Susceptible - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Given (to) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Recumbent - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
- Flat on one's face - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Apt - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Accident-___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Flat - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Liable - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Supine's opposite - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Face-to-face exams - ORALS, used 65 times
- Pie-in-the-face sound - SPLAT, used 51 times
- For face value - ATPAR, used 25 times
- About-face - UTURN, used 24 times
- Stopped lying? - SATUP, used 23 times
- Stopped lying? - AROSE, used 23 times
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