Put the pedal to the metal
The crossword clue "Put the pedal to the metal" is answered by SPEED, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SPEED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPEED answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 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.
- GOFAST (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for SPEED
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPEED, most used first.
- Velocity - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
- Drive too fast - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Ignore the limit - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Celerity - used 26 times, most recently in 2015
- Risk a ticket - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Alacrity - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Floor it - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Haste - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Exceed the limit - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- The going rate? - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Going rate? - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Go over the limit - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Radar gun reading - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Swiftness - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Rapidity - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Quickness - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Race - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Radar reading - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- A driving concern? - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Dispatch - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Hurry - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Kind of trap - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Rate of motion - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- 1994 Keanu Reeves film - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- In the know - AWARE, used 356 times
- Put up - ERECT, used 263 times
- To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
- Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
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