Dead-end jobs
The crossword clue "Dead-end jobs" is answered by RUTS, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RUTS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUTS answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RUTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by RUTS, most used first.
- Grooves - used 40 times, most recently in 2023
- Boring routines - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Furrows - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
- Dull routines - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Road grooves - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Trenches - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Monotonous routines - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Wheel tracks - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Dirt road grooves - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Tire tracks - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Tiresome routines - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Road furrows - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Road hazards - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Tedious routines - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Daily grinds - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Dirt road features - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Dirt road hazards - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Between jobs - IDLE, used 87 times
- Hammer end - PEEN, used 79 times
- Tail end - REAR, used 43 times
- End in ___ - ATIE, used 40 times
- Back end - REAR, used 39 times
- Salon jobs - DYES, used 39 times
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