Legal postponements

The answer

STAYS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STAYS answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 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
• Collar stiffeners - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
• Sojourns - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Hotel visits - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• 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.

• Legal claims - LIENS, used 51 times
• Legal wrongs - TORTS, used 41 times
• Legal - LICIT, used 28 times
• Legal right - DROIT, used 16 times
• Legal addendum - RIDER, used 13 times
• Legal defense - ALIBI, used 13 times

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