Clip off
The crossword clue "Clip off" is answered by SHEAR, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1954. 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
SHEAR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHEAR answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SHEAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by SHEAR, most used first.
- Clip - used 45 times, most recently in 2022
- Cut - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Fleece - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
- Gather wool - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Clip wool from - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut off - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Shave, as sheep - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Clip, as wool - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Clip sheep - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Clip wool - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Take off a wool coat - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Cut wool from - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Remove wool from - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut, as wool - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Harvest wool - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Wind danger - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Do some wool gathering - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Wind phenomenon - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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