Work up a sweat
The crossword clue "Work up a sweat" is answered by TOIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
TOIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TOIL answer page.
Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 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
- Trouble's partner - used 16 times, most recently in 2015
- "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.
- Work units - ERGS, used 256 times
- Musical work - OPUS, used 110 times
- Puts to work - USES, used 109 times
- Units of work - ERGS, used 100 times
- Work - OPUS, used 81 times
- Major work - OPUS, used 79 times
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