Eluded the tag
The crossword clue "Eluded the tag" is answered by SLID, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLID
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLID answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLID
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLID, most used first.
- Lost traction - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
- Glided - used 69 times, most recently in 2025
- Skidded - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Coasted - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Moved smoothly - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Used a firehouse pole - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Went down a chute - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Declined - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Hit the dirt - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
- Lost one's footing - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Slipped - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Tried to beat the tag - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Avoided a tag, perhaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Reached base, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Rode the banister - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Skated - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Tobogganed - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
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.
- Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
- In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
- On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
- From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
- Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
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