Mend one's ways
The crossword clue "Mend one's ways" is answered by REPENT, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
REPENT
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REPENT answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for REPENT
Every other clue in this collection answered by REPENT, most used first.
- Be contrite - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Advice to sinners - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Evangelist's exhortation - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Show contrition - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Advice to a sinner - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Feel contrite - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Feel contrition - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Feel remorse - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Blows one's top - ERUPTS, used 34 times
- Takes as one's own - ADOPTS, used 29 times
- Lying on one's back - SUPINE, used 16 times
- Go back on one's word - RENEGE, used 15 times
- In one's dotage - SENILE, used 15 times
- Eat one's words - RECANT, used 14 times
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