Prolonged assault
The crossword clue "Prolonged assault" is answered by SIEGE, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SIEGE
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Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 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
- 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.
- Assault - ONSET, used 42 times
- Initial assault - ONSET, used 6 times
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