Playful pinch
The crossword clue "Playful pinch" is answered by TWEAK, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2006. 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
TWEAK
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TWEAK answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2006. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TWEAK
Every other clue in this collection answered by TWEAK, most used first.
- Fine-tune - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Adjust slightly - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Pinch - used 17 times, most recently in 2002
- Minor adjustment - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Adjust a bit - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Make small adjustments to - 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.
- Playful aquatic mammal - OTTER, used 60 times
- Playful prank - ANTIC, used 50 times
- Playful mammal - OTTER, used 48 times
- Playful swimmer - OTTER, used 40 times
- Playful river mammal - OTTER, used 26 times
- Playful trick - ANTIC, used 26 times
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