Feature of some skirts

The answer

SLIT

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

Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• PLEAT (2 uses in xd)
• BOXPLEAT (1 uses in xd)
• SUNRAYPLEAT (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for SLIT

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

• Narrow cut - used 186 times, most recently in 2026
• Narrow opening - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• Skirt feature - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Thin cut - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Buttonhole, e.g. - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a letter opener - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Thin opening - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Skirt opening - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Buttonhole, essentially - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Aperture - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Narrow aperture - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• Small cut - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Alluring skirt feature - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Buttonhole - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
• Open, as an envelope - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Small opening - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Gill opening - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Open with a letter opener - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Incision - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Revealing skirt feature - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Long, narrow cut - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Sexy skirt feature - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Alluring dress feature - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Narrow gap - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Razor cut - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Slash. - used 8 times, most recently in 1982
• Vent. - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
• Gash - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Skirt cut - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Small incision - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Fine cut - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Fissure - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Opening - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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.

• Goblet feature - STEM, used 116 times
• Some - AFEW, used 116 times
• Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
• Some whiskeys - RYES, used 81 times
• Some NCOs - SGTS, used 80 times
• Fork feature - TINE, used 72 times

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