Cleave
The crossword clue "Cleave" is answered by SEVER, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1959. 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
SEVER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEVER answer page.
Used 13 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SEVER
Every other clue in this collection answered by SEVER, most used first.
- Cut off - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut - used 63 times, most recently in 2024
- Break off - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Divide. - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Lop off - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Disconnect - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Discontinue, as relations - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Disjoin - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Cut, as ties - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Dissolve, as ties - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Separate - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
- Split apart - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Break off, as relations - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Break off completely - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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- Frighten - SCARE, used 195 times
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- Place - STEAD, used 187 times
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