Turns sharply
The crossword clue "Turns sharply" is answered by SLUES, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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SLUES
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Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SLUES
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- Swings around - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Pivots - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Turns on an axis - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
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.
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- Twisty turns - ESSES, used 23 times
- Sharply dressed - NATTY, used 19 times
- Turns sharply - VEERS, used 19 times
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