Accelerates, as an engine
The crossword clue "Accelerates, as an engine" is answered by REVS, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
REVS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REVS answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for REVS
Every other clue in this collection answered by REVS, most used first.
- Guns the engine - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Guns, as an engine - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Guns - used 48 times, most recently in 2024
- Races, as an engine - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Guns, as a motor - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
- Speeds (up) - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
- Races the engine - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Guns a motor - used 9 times, most recently in 1991
- Cranks (up) - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Guns the motor - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Accelerates, with "up" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Races, as a motor - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- ___ up (accelerates) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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