Tire in a trunk
The crossword clue "Tire in a trunk" is answered by SPARE, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SPARE
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Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- 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
- Lean - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- 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.
- Trunk - TORSO, used 160 times
- Tire pattern - TREAD, used 89 times
- Tire feature - TREAD, used 52 times
- Trunk of the body - TORSO, used 51 times
- Human trunk - TORSO, used 45 times
- Arterial trunk - AORTA, used 22 times
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