Powerful blow
The crossword clue "Powerful blow" is answered by SWAT, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1999. 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
SWAT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SWAT answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 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
- 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
- Hit, as a mosquito - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- 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.
- Karate blow - CHOP, used 69 times
- Blow off steam - VENT, used 63 times
- Big blow - GALE, used 60 times
- Powerful wind - GALE, used 54 times
- Powerful shark - MAKO, used 32 times
- Powerful engine - VTEN, used 24 times
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