Clean with elbow grease
The crossword clue "Clean with elbow grease" is answered by SCOUR, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
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SCOUR
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Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; 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.
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Other clues for SCOUR
Every other clue in this collection answered by SCOUR, most used first.
- Search thoroughly - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
- Scrub - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Use elbow grease on - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Search high and low - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Clean thoroughly - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Scrub thoroughly - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Scrub hard - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Really scrub - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Clean with effort - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Really clean - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Wipe clean - ERASE, used 238 times
- Fill with joy - ELATE, used 232 times
- Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
- Connect with - TIETO, used 87 times
- Go with the flow - ADAPT, used 77 times
- Change with the times - ADAPT, used 72 times
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