Did in, as a dragon

The answer

SLEW

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLEW answer page.

Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SLEW

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

• Whole bunch - used 168 times, most recently in 2026
• Whole lot - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Murdered - used 55 times, most recently in 2023
• Large quantity - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Did in - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Large number - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Boatload - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Large amount - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Passel - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Killed - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Killed, as a dragon - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Multitude - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Bunch - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Dispatched - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Host - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Scads - used 16 times, most recently in 2001
• Whole bunch (of) - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Huge amount - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Great number - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• A lot: Colloq. - used 13 times, most recently in 1968
• Plethora - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Big bunch - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Bumped off - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
• Oodles - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Great deal - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Large number: Colloq. - used 11 times, most recently in 1965
• Dispatched, as a dragon - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Slaughtered - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Triple Crown-winning horse Seattle ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Assassinated - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Did away with - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Gobs - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Lot - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Vast number - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• A whole bunch - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Offed - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Raft - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Ton - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Whole heap - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Whole mess - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Did away with, as a dragon - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Great quantity - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Triple Crown winner Seattle __ - 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.

• "I did it!" - TADA, used 128 times
• "Look what I did!" - TADA, used 103 times
• Kill, as a dragon - SLAY, used 47 times
• "Did you __?" - EVER, used 46 times
• Do in, as a dragon - SLAY, used 45 times
• Did the crawl - SWAM, used 42 times

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