Straight dope
The crossword clue "Straight dope" is answered by TRUTH, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TRUTH
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRUTH answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TRUTH
Every other clue in this collection answered by TRUTH, most used first.
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- Abolitionist Sojourner - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Verified fact - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Verity - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
- Kind of serum - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Set straight - ALIGN, used 96 times
- Standing straight - ERECT, used 54 times
- Straight up - ERECT, used 43 times
- Standing up straight - ERECT, used 31 times
- "Straight ___ Compton" - OUTTA, used 23 times
- Make straight - ALIGN, used 18 times
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