Collar stiffeners
The crossword clue "Collar stiffeners" is answered by STAYS, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STAYS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STAYS answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for STAYS
Every other clue in this collection answered by STAYS, most used first.
- Remains - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Sticks around - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Doesn't leave - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Hangs around - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Collar inserts - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Doesn't go - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Lingers - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Sojourns - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
- Hotel visits - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Legal postponements - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Doesn't fold - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Doesn't budge - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Doesn't split - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Remains behind - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Suppresses one's wanderlust - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Tarries - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Hot under the collar - IRATE, used 65 times
- Dog collar attachment - IDTAG, used 41 times
- Collar attachment - IDTAG, used 17 times
- Hot under the collar - RILED, used 15 times
- Collar attachment - LEASH, used 14 times
- Hot under the collar - ANGRY, used 10 times
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