Drains of strength
The crossword clue "Drains of strength" is answered by SAPS, a 4-letter entry. Used 18 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. 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
SAPS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SAPS answer page.
Used 18 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SAPS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SAPS, most used first.
- Drains - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
- Drains of energy - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Easy targets - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Weakens - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Enervates - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Suckers - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Chumps - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Easy marks - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Undermines - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Depletes - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Dupes - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
- Exhausts - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Gullible sorts - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
- Patsies - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
- Gullible ones - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Drains, as energy - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Easy dupes - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Fall guys - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Devitalizes - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Fools - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Ninnies - used 10 times, most recently in 2007
- Drains, as of energy - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Drains energy from - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Nincompoops - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Schlemiels - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Chuckleheads - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Drains, as strength - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Gullible dupes - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Maple fluids - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Maple-syrup sources - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Tree fluids - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Easily duped sorts - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Gullible types - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Lunkheads - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Tree juices - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Symbol of strength - IRON, used 19 times
- Symbols of strength - OAKS, used 17 times
- Lose strength - FLAG, used 12 times
- Lacking strength - WEAK, used 11 times
- Lose strength - FADE, used 10 times
- Source of Samson's strength - HAIR, used 8 times
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