Reached base, in a way

The answer

SLID

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2013. 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
• Rode the banister - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Eluded the tag - used 6 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.

• Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
• Way off - AFAR, used 229 times
• Poi base - TARO, used 122 times
• Way out there - AFAR, used 104 times
• One way to run - AMOK, used 102 times
• "The Way We ___" - WERE, used 82 times

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