Bowling scores
The crossword clue "Bowling scores" is answered by SPARES, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2004; first recorded in 1954. 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
SPARES
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARES answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2004; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPARES
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPARES, most used first.
- Extra tires - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Some tires - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Extras - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Alley pickups - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Lets off the hook - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Trunk tires - 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.
- Bowling lanes - ALLEYS, used 13 times
- Bowling feat - STRIKE, used 7 times
- Bowling target - TENPIN, used 7 times
- Bowling alley buttons - RESETS, used 6 times
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