Assault on Troy, e.g.

The answer

SIEGE

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SIEGE

Every other clue in this collection answered by SIEGE, most used first.

• Prolonged attack - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
• Military blockade - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Blockade - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Long attack - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Prolonged battle - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Military attack - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Prolonged assault - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Beleaguerment. - used 11 times, most recently in 1998
• Long battle - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Persistent attack - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Drawn-out attack - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• All-out attack - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Drawn-out battle - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Lengthy attack - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Military assault - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Sustained attack - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Troy story - ILIAD, used 63 times
• Assault - ONSET, used 42 times
• ___ of Troy - HELEN, used 25 times
• King of Troy - PRIAM, used 18 times
• Ancient Troy. - ILIUM, used 17 times
• Tale of Troy - ILIAD, used 14 times

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