"Don't bother explaining"
The crossword clue ""Don't bother explaining"" is answered by SPAREME, a 7-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SPAREME
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPAREME answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPAREME
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPAREME, most used first.
- "I don't want to hear it!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- "I've heard enough" - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- "Puh-leeze!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- "Oh, please!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- "Oh, puh-leeze!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- "Puh-lease!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- "Don't move!" - STAYPUT, used 18 times
- "Don't test me!" - IMEANIT, used 17 times
- Bother - DISTURB, used 8 times
- Don't have to - NEEDNOT, used 8 times
- "Don't worry about it!" - NOSWEAT, used 8 times
- "Don't be ridiculous!" - GETREAL, used 7 times
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