Use the library

The answer

READ

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

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• CHECKOUTBOOKS (1 uses in xd)

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
• Try for a role - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Curl up with a good book - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ my lips!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• 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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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