Lean
The crossword clue "Lean" is answered by SPARE, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SPARE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARE answer page.
Used 13 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 3 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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Other clues for SPARE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPARE, most used first.
- Extra - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Tire in the trunk - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Extra tire - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Fifth wheel - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Left over - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Trunk item - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Tire in a trunk - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Fifth tire - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Bowling score. - used 14 times, most recently in 2009
- Alley pickup - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Bowler's pickup - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Do without - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Emergency tire - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Let live - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Superfluous - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Alley score - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Flat replacement - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Have mercy on - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- /, in bowling - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Trunk tire - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Bowler's feat - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- "His wife could ___ lean" - EATNO, used 14 times
- Long and lean - LANKY, used 12 times
- Lean eater of rhyme - SPRAT, used 11 times
- Lean-tos - SHEDS, used 11 times
- " . . . could ___ lean" - EATNO, used 9 times
- Lean animal - SCRAG, used 9 times
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