Prolonged battle

The answer

SIEGE

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

Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. 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
• 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
• 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.

• Ready for battle - ARMED, used 61 times
• 1836 battle site - ALAMO, used 43 times
• Battle of the ___ - SEXES, used 35 times
• Battle site of 1836 - ALAMO, used 27 times
• Engaged in battle - ATWAR, used 26 times
• Doing battle - ATWAR, used 25 times

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