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The answer

ROAD

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

Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. 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

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

• ISOBAR (4 uses in xd)
• STREET (3 uses in xd)
• AVENUE (1 uses in xd)
• BORDER (1 uses in xd)
• LATITUDE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ROAD

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

• Highway - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Way to go - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
• Map line - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Way. - used 38 times, most recently in 2023
• Street - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Thoroughfare - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Rocky __ ice cream - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Course - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Street or avenue - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Abbey __"; Beatles album - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Artery - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Byway - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Fork setting - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Highway or byway - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Pike - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Pothole's place - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Rocky ___ (ice cream flavor) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Turnpike. - used 12 times, most recently in 1998
• Fork site - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Street or highway - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Willie Nelson's "On the ___ Again" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Fork option - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• "Goodbye Yellow Brick ___" (Elton John song) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• It has shoulders but no head - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• "The Long and Winding ___" - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Abbey or Tobacco - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Area between the shoulders - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Hope/Crosby title word - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Place for a fork - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "The ___ Not Taken" (Frost) - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Kind of hog - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Pathway - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Rocky ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Salesman's place - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Yellow Brick, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Right on the map - EAST, used 140 times
• Top-of-the-line - AONE, used 137 times
• Toe the line - OBEY, used 116 times
• Picket line crosser - SCAB, used 103 times
• Story line - PLOT, used 89 times
• Graph line - AXIS, used 82 times

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