Sharp blow
The crossword clue "Sharp blow" is answered by SWAT, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1969. 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 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
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
- 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
- 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.
- Sharp - KEEN, used 139 times
- Sharp taste - TANG, used 88 times
- Karate blow - CHOP, used 69 times
- Blow off steam - VENT, used 63 times
- Big blow - GALE, used 60 times
- Sharp flavor - TANG, used 53 times
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