Flinch, perhaps
The crossword clue "Flinch, perhaps" is answered by REACT, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2004. 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
REACT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REACT answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for REACT
Every other clue in this collection answered by REACT, most used first.
- Respond - used 59 times, most recently in 2024
- Do a double take - used 39 times, most recently in 2015
- Respond to a stimulus - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Flinch, say - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Give feedback - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Change, chemically - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Gasp, say - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Respond to stimuli - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Do a double take, e.g. - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Don't just stand there - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Strike back - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
- Acknowledge a stimulus - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Flinch, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Undergo chemical change - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Do a double take, say - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Duck, say - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Show emotion - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Do something - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Respond (to) - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
- Undergo a chemical change - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Do a spit take, say - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Respond to stimulus - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Take countermeasures - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- Perhaps - MAYBE, used 68 times
- Flinch - WINCE, used 38 times
- Yawning, perhaps - BORED, used 26 times
- Bookish, perhaps - NERDY, used 12 times
- Coffee break time, perhaps - TENAM, used 12 times
- Had leftovers, perhaps - ATEIN, used 12 times
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