Trouble's partner
The crossword clue "Trouble's partner" is answered by TOIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TOIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TOIL answer page.
Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TOIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by TOIL, most used first.
- Work hard - used 183 times, most recently in 2026
- Labor - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard work - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Drudgery - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Slave away - used 39 times, most recently in 2019
- Plug away - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Work like a dog - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Work up a sweat - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- "Double, double ___ and trouble" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard labor - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Work very hard - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Exertion - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Slave - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Work, work, work - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Drudge - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Put in long hours - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Work - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Travail - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Work really hard - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Grind away - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Labor strenuously - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Sweat producer - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Grind - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Slog away - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Sweat - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Currier's partner - IVES, used 222 times
- Partner - MATE, used 86 times
- Ollie's partner - STAN, used 83 times
- Dance partner? - SONG, used 67 times
- Radius partner - ULNA, used 66 times
- Sciences' partner - ARTS, used 64 times
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