Tightening muscle
The crossword clue "Tightening muscle" is answered by TENSOR, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TENSOR
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TENSOR answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TENSOR
Every other clue in this collection answered by TENSOR, most used first.
- Stretching muscle - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- Certain muscle - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
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