Tailors
The crossword clue "Tailors" is answered by SEWS, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 6 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 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SARTORS (4 uses in xd)
- DRAPERS (1 uses in xd)
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
- Hems. - used 8 times, most recently in 1964
- Makes clothes - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Mends with thread - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- 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.
- Sayers' "The __ Tailors" - NINE, used 15 times
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