Uses shears
The crossword clue "Uses shears" is answered by SNIPS, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SNIPS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SNIPS answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SNIPS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SNIPS, most used first.
- Quick cuts - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Salon sounds - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Cuts - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
- Barbershop sounds - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Short cuts - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Cuts with scissors - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Quick scissor cuts - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Scissors sounds - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Uses scissors - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Little cuts - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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