Struck, old-style

The answer

SMOTE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMOTE answer page.

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• SMIT (27 uses in xd)

Other clues for SMOTE

Every other clue in this collection answered by SMOTE, most used first.

• Struck - used 49 times, most recently in 2024
• Struck down - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Hit. - used 16 times, most recently in 2001
• Struck down, biblically - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Hit hard - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
• Struck down, in the Bible - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Struck hard - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Clobbered - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Walloped - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Walloped, old-style - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Whacked, Bible-style - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• What David did to Goliath - used 6 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.

• Old anesthetic - ETHER, used 156 times
• Old-womanish - ANILE, used 155 times
• Love, Italian-style - AMORE, used 132 times
• Old saying - ADAGE, used 127 times
• Out of style - PASSE, used 118 times
• Old hat - PASSE, used 100 times

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