Sail-extending pole
The crossword clue "Sail-extending pole" is answered by SPRIT, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SPRIT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPRIT answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPRIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPRIT, most used first.
- Nautical pole - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Sail extender - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Diagonal spar - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Small spar - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Spar - used 7 times, most recently in 1991
- Nautical spar - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Sail supports - MASTS, used 53 times
- Battery pole - ANODE, used 44 times
- Fowl pole? - ROOST, used 39 times
- Tribal pole - TOTEM, used 39 times
- Positive pole - ANODE, used 37 times
- North Pole workers - ELVES, used 33 times
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