Cut covering
The crossword clue "Cut covering" is answered by SCAB, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1997. 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
SCAB
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SCAB answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for SCAB
Every other clue in this collection answered by SCAB, most used first.
- Strikebreaker - used 145 times, most recently in 2026
- Sign of healing - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
- Picket line crosser - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
- Wound cover - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Healing sign - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Wound covering - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Natural bandage - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Strike breaker - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Striker's bane - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Line crosser - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
- One who crosses the line - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Union foe - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Plant disease - used 13 times, most recently in 2001
- Striker's foe - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Certain line-crosser - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Strike defier - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut cover - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Striker's anathema - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Wound crust - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
- Wound protector - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Part of the healing process - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Hardly a striking individual? - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Nature's bandage - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Abrasion aftermath - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Evidence of healing - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Person who crosses the line - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Striker's replacement - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Walkout defier - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Seed covering - ARIL, used 316 times
- Narrow cut - SLIT, used 186 times
- Deep cut - GASH, used 164 times
- Pork cut - LOIN, used 107 times
- Quick cut - SNIP, used 97 times
- Cut - SNIP, used 88 times
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