Mends with thread
The crossword clue "Mends with thread" is answered by SEWS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SEWS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEWS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SEWS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SEWS, most used first.
- Stitches - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
- Puts in stitches - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Uses needle and thread - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Uses a needle - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Wraps (up) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Bastes. - used 22 times, most recently in 2003
- Uses a Singer - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Plies a needle - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Sutures - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Darns - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Uses a needle and thread - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Wields a needle - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Keeps folks in stitches? - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
- Works with needle and thread - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Hems but doesn't haw - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Embroiders. - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Fixes with thread - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Overcasts. - used 9 times, most recently in 1978
- Stitches up - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Tailors - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Hems. - used 8 times, most recently in 1964
- Makes clothes - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Attaches patches - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Does some darning - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Stitches together - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Does embroidery - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Does needlework - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Does some mending - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Does some tailoring - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Does tailoring - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Leaves in stitches? - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Makes a seam - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Works with a needle - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
- Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
- Done with - OVER, used 145 times
- With: Fr. - AVEC, used 132 times
- With skill - ABLY, used 127 times
- Mix with a spoon - STIR, used 117 times
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