Same old grind
The crossword clue "Same old grind" is answered by RUT, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 5 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 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1959. 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
- Bad place to be stuck - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Dirt road hazard - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
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- Old hand - PRO, used 166 times
- Old French coin - SOU, used 132 times
- Old card game - LOO, used 112 times
- Old English letter - EDH, used 88 times
- Old auto - REO, used 76 times
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