Crack

The answer

SOLVE

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

Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ADEPT (18 uses in xd)
• FLAW (11 uses in xd)
• RIFT (9 uses in xd)
• ACE (8 uses in xd)
• STAB (8 uses in xd)

Other clues for SOLVE

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

• Figure out - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Puzzle out - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Work out - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Unravel - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Get to the bottom of - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Decipher - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Find the answer to - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Complete, as a crossword - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Do what you're doing - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Unravel, as a mystery - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Do a puzzle - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Work through - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• Crack - ADEPT, used 18 times
• Tough nut to crack - POSER, used 16 times
• Crack up - LAUGH, used 11 times
• Crack squad - ATEAM, used 10 times
• Things to crack - CODES, used 10 times
• Crack up - AMUSE, used 9 times

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