Begins to wake
The crossword clue "Begins to wake" is answered by STIRS, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STIRS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STIRS answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for STIRS
Every other clue in this collection answered by STIRS, most used first.
- Mixes up - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Mixes - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Uses a swizzle stick - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Mixes with a spoon - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Agitates - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Moves - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Starts to wake - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Awakens - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Swizzles - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Budges - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Commotions - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Rouses - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Ruins 007's martini? - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- To-dos - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Uses a spoon - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Affects emotionally - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Begins to awaken - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Excites - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Moves a bit - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Moves a muscle - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Tends to the sauce - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Wake up - ROUSE, used 44 times
- "Wake Up Little ___" - SUSIE, used 32 times
- Wake-up call - ALARM, used 20 times
- Begins - OPENS, used 19 times
- Wake Island, e.g. - ATOLL, used 16 times
- "Golf Begins at Forty" author - SNEAD, used 14 times
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