Use elbow grease on
The crossword clue "Use elbow grease on" is answered by SCOUR, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus.
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SCOUR
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Used 19 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 7 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
- Search high and low - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Clean with elbow grease - used 15 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
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- Use a divining rod - DOWSE, used 105 times
- Be of use to - AVAIL, used 79 times
- Use - AVAIL, used 55 times
- Use a broom - SWEEP, used 46 times
- Use a loom - WEAVE, used 41 times
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