Repairs, as a driveway

The answer

TARS

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TARS

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

• Old salts - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Sea dogs - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Sailors - used 59 times, most recently in 2021
• Salts - used 38 times, most recently in 2021
• Swabbies - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Gobs - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
• Besmirches - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Seamen - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Seafarers - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• ___ and feathers - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Blackens - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Veteran sailors - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Covers with black goo - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Old sailors - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Mariners - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Repairs, as a roof - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Black paving materials - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Bluejackets. - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
• Smears - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Works on the road - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Does some paving - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Make repairs to - MEND, used 22 times
• Without repairs - ASIS, used 7 times

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