Animal that sleeps upside down
The crossword clue "Animal that sleeps upside down" is answered by SLOTH, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLOTH
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLOTH answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SLOTH
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLOTH, most used first.
- Laziness - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- A deadly sin - used 29 times, most recently in 2019
- Slow-moving mammal - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Indolence - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- One of the deadly sins - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Symbol of laziness - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Sleepy mammal - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Laziest of the deadly sins - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- One of the seven deadly sins - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Wear down - ERODE, used 180 times
- Run-down - SEEDY, used 178 times
- Weighed down - LADEN, used 122 times
- "That is to say ..." - IMEAN, used 113 times
- Andean animal - LLAMA, used 93 times
- Duck down - EIDER, used 83 times
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