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The answer

TOLD

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TOLD

Every other clue in this collection answered by TOLD, most used first.

• Related - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• Snitched - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Spilled the beans - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Informed - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Tattled - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Narrated - used 27 times, most recently in 2021
• Let the cat out of the bag - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Recounted - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Blabbed - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• "I ___ you so!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Ratted (on) - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Couldn't keep a secret - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Divulged - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Was a snitch - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Ratted - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Didn't keep mum - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Related, as a story - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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