Cut, as wool

The answer

SHEAR

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHEAR answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Harvest wool - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Wind danger - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Clip off - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Do some wool gathering - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Wind phenomenon - used 6 times, most recently in 2011

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.

• Cut off - SEVER, used 104 times
• Cut - SEVER, used 63 times
• Wool source - LLAMA, used 43 times
• Cut corners - SKIMP, used 42 times
• V-shaped cut - NOTCH, used 42 times
• Cut into cubes - DICED, used 40 times

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