Bad place to be stuck

The answer

RUT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUT answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RUT

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

• Groove - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• Boring routine - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Furrow - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Same old, same old - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Dull routine - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Trench - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Daily grind - used 37 times, most recently in 2023
• Tire track - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Deep groove - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Wheel track - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Monotonous routine - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Place to get stuck - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Same old routine - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Dirt road feature - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Grind - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Road groove - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Stuck in a ___ - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Dead-end job - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Groove in a dirt road - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Sticking point? - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Boring daily routine - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Road hazard - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Track - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Dirt road hazard - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Same old grind - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Tiresome grind - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Bad thing to be stuck in - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Mind-numbing routine - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Pothole - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Road furrow - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Same old thing - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Boring old routine - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Dirt road groove - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Humdrum routine - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Routine - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Rural road feature - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Wagon wheel groove - 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.

• Go bad - ROT, used 373 times
• Pig's place - STY, used 179 times
• Place - PUT, used 131 times
• Pupil's place - EYE, used 113 times
• Napkin's place - LAP, used 92 times
• Parking place - LOT, used 91 times

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