Use a stopwatch

The answer

TIME

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

Used 29 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• CLOCK (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for TIME

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• Fourth dimension - used 37 times, most recently in 2019
• Clock reading - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "Pencils down!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Proctor's call - used 28 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.

• Use a swizzle stick - STIR, used 114 times
• Use a keyboard - TYPE, used 113 times
• Use scissors - SNIP, used 81 times
• Not in use - IDLE, used 50 times
• Use a letter opener - SLIT, used 32 times
• Use a surgical beam - LASE, used 29 times

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