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READ

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the READ answer page.

Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for READ

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

• Peruse - used 223 times, most recently in 2026
• Interpret - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Enjoy a book - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Enjoy a novel - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Try for a part - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Study - used 33 times, most recently in 2008
• Crack a book - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Scan - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Audition for a part - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
• Hit the books - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Librarian's advice - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Sit down with a book - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• Understand - used 15 times, most recently in 2008
• Part of ROM - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Perused - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Use a Kindle - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Curl up with a good book - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ my lips!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Use the library - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Be a bookworm - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Have a novel experience? - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Interpret, as tea leaves - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Decipher - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Pore over - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Sit with a book - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Audition - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Crack the books - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Text message status - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Audition (for) - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ between the lines - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ 'em and weep!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Do one of the three R's - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Enjoy a good book - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Leaf through - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Librarian's urging - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Library byword - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Prove one's literacy - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Enjoy a magazine - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Get into a novel - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Interpreted - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Peruse a book - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Prove your literacy - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Use a Kindle, say - 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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Try out - TEST, used 242 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times

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