Hit, as a mosquito

The answer

SWAT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SWAT answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SWAT

Every other clue in this collection answered by SWAT, most used first.

• Whack - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Hit hard - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Try for a fly - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Hit - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Clout. - used 21 times, most recently in 1993
• Kill flies - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Smack a baseball - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Smack - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Hit, as a fly - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Ruth's sultanate - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Thwack - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Slap - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Police jacket letters - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Hit a fly - used 14 times, most recently in 2014
• Sharp blow - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Powerful blow - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Whack, as a fly - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Bat a gnat - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Big blow - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Go after a fly - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Police team - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
• Quick hit - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Smack hard - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Babe Ruth's "sultanate" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Kind of team - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Sultan of ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 1999
• Attack, as a fly - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Belt - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Flatten a fly - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Heavy blow - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Hit like Ruth - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Sultan of ___ (Babe Ruth) - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Elite police team - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Go after flies - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Hit flies - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "The Sultan of ___" (Babe Ruth's nickname) - 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.

• 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit - ADIA, used 87 times
• Village People hit - YMCA, used 80 times
• Open-handed hit - SLAP, used 78 times
• Hit the mall - SHOP, used 58 times
• "___ Tu" (1974 hit) - ERES, used 56 times
• Hit the ceiling - RAGE, used 38 times

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