Routine
The crossword clue "Routine" is answered by RUT, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RUT
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUT answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 4 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.
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
- Bad place to be stuck - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
- 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.
- Routine - ACT, used 21 times
- Comedy routine - BIT, used 20 times
- Circus routine - ACT, used 17 times
- Routine bit - GAG, used 7 times
- First baseman in a classic comedy routine - WHO, used 6 times
- Vaudeville routine - ACT, used 6 times
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