Tangle or disentangle
The crossword clue "Tangle or disentangle" is answered by RAVEL, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1978. 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
RAVEL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RAVEL answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RAVEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by RAVEL, most used first.
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- French composer. - used 14 times, most recently in 2007
- "Daphnis et Chloé" composer - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Get tangled up - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Debussy contemporary - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- "Gaspard de la Nuit" composer - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Entangle - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Entangle, as yarn - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Tangle - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Tangle - SNARL, used 59 times
- Disentangle - UNTIE, used 28 times
- Traffic tangle - SNARL, used 18 times
- Hair tangle - SNARL, used 14 times
- In a tangle - AFOUL, used 10 times
- Tangle - SKEIN, used 6 times
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