Hiker's route
The crossword clue "Hiker's route" is answered by TRAIL, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TRAIL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRAIL answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 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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Other clues for TRAIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by TRAIL, most used first.
- Hiker's path - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Lag behind - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Follow - used 32 times, most recently in 2022
- Hiking path - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Bring up the rear - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Be behind - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Path - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Fall behind - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Mountain path - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Hike route - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Hiking route - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Shadow - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Have some catching up to do - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Follow behind - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Follow the leader - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Takes an indirect route - WENDS, used 7 times
- Gondola's route - CANAL, used 6 times
- Me.-to-Fla. route - USONE, used 6 times
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