Certain drop

The answer

TEAR

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TEAR

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

• Rip - used 248 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye drop - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
• Rend - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Sign of sorrow - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Salty drop - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Spree - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
• Pull apart - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Glum drop? - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Rip (up) - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Binge - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Rip apart - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Bender - used 22 times, most recently in 2019
• Rent - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Shred - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Saline drop - used 21 times, most recently in 2014
• Sign of sadness - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Race - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Lacerate - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Sorrowful drop - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Run like heck - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Drop of sorrow - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Fabric mishap - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Hot streak - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Shed item - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Disrupt. - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Hightail it - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Lachrymal drop - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Speed - used 12 times, most recently in 2005
• Kind of gas - used 11 times, most recently in 2005
• Sign of remorse - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Dotted-line command - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Muscle injury - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Salty droplet - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Dotted-line instruction - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Drop of sadness - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Zoom - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Fabric flaw - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Go lickety-split - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Rampage - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Cheek glistener - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Dash - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Get misty-eyed - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Go like mad - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Kind of drop - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Lachryma - used 7 times, most recently in 1987
• Lacrimal droplet - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Place for a patch - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Raze (with "down") - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Scotch tape target - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Symbol of sadness - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Wardrobe malfunction - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Cartilage injury - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Certain muscle injury - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Hank Williams Jr.'s "There's a ___ in My Beer" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Paper mishap - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Rush headlong - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Shed a __ (weep) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Sign of joy or sorrow - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Split - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Streak on a cheek - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Zip - 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.

• Certain - SURE, used 160 times
• Drop - OMIT, used 117 times
• At the drop of ___ - AHAT, used 94 times
• Certain something - AURA, used 65 times
• Drop in the mail - SEND, used 46 times
• Certain tide - NEAP, used 35 times

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