Fail to follow suit

The answer

RENEGE

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RENEGE answer page.

Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• REVOKE (2 uses in xd)
• RENIG (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for RENEGE

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

• Go back on a promise - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Go back (on) - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Break a promise - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Weasel out - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Go back on one's word - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Back out - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Go back - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Go back on a deal - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Back out of a deal - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Back out (on) - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Bridge blunder - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Cop out - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Fail to keep a promise - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Go back on, as a promise - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Black suit - SPADES, used 49 times
• Dark suit - SPADES, used 17 times
• Red suit - HEARTS, used 13 times
• Two-piece suit - BIKINI, used 13 times
• Follow secretly - SHADOW, used 12 times
• Sure to fail - DOOMED, used 12 times

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