Twist sideways
The crossword clue "Twist sideways" is answered by SLUE, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1985. 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
SLUE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLUE answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLUE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLUE, most used first.
- Swing around - used 140 times, most recently in 2024
- Pivot - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn on an axis - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn on a pivot - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn about - used 21 times, most recently in 2013
- Swing about - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Pivot around - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Twist - used 16 times, most recently in 2005
- Veer. - used 13 times, most recently in 2003
- Turn sharply - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Fishtail - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Turn - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn, as a mast - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Do a quick turnaround - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Swivel around - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Turn around - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Pivot around a pole - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Swivel on an axis - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Twist - SKEW, used 47 times
- Move sideways - EDGE, used 21 times
- Twist out of shape - WARP, used 21 times
- Twist the arm of - URGE, used 18 times
- Slip sideways - SKID, used 13 times
- Slide sideways - SKID, used 12 times
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