Apply the brakes
The crossword clue "Apply the brakes" is answered by SLOW, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. 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
SLOW
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLOW answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLOW
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLOW, most used first.
- Leisurely - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Sluggish - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Poky - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Decelerate - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
- Traffic sign - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Not busy - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Snail-like - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Like molasses - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Deliberate - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Like a snail - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Not very busy - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- School zone sign - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Dilatory - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Road sign - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- At a snail's pace - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Gradual - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Moving at a snail's pace - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Tortoiselike - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Brake - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Dull - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Like a sloth - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Like a snail's pace - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Reduce speed - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Tap the brakes - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Traffic caution - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Behind the times. - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Far from fast - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Lethargic - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Like a tortoise - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Plodding - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- __ as molasses - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Boring - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Highway sign - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Reduce one's speed - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- School zone warning - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Snail-paced - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Snaillike - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Tedious - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Unhurried - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
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- 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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