Tightens (up)
The crossword clue "Tightens (up)" is answered by TENSES, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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TENSES
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TENSES answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TENSES
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- Past and present - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Past, present and future - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Verb forms - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Past and future - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Stiffens - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
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