Buttonholes, e.g.
The crossword clue "Buttonholes, e.g." is answered by SLITS, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLITS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLITS answer page.
Used 6 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLITS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLITS, most used first.
- Narrow cuts - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Narrow openings - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Thin cuts - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Openings. - used 9 times, most recently in 1968
- Skirt features - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Gill openings - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Long cuts - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Narrow apertures - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Narrow incisions - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Thin openings - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Uses a letter opener - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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