Military attack
The crossword clue "Military attack" is answered by SIEGE, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SIEGE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SIEGE answer page.
Used 19 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- 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
- Assault on Troy, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- 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.
- Attack - SETAT, used 92 times
- Attack - SETON, used 78 times
- Military chaplain - PADRE, used 58 times
- Attack from all sides - BESET, used 55 times
- Military trainee - CADET, used 35 times
- Allow to attack - LETAT, used 31 times
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