Loosen laces
The crossword clue "Loosen laces" is answered by UNTIE, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
UNTIE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UNTIE answer page.
Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for UNTIE
Every other clue in this collection answered by UNTIE, most used first.
- Loosen - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
- Loosen, as laces - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Set free - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Free - used 39 times, most recently in 2021
- Loosen, as a knot - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Disentangle - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Let loose - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Loosen, as shoelaces - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Loosen, in a way - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
- Release - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Free, in a way - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Set loose - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Loosen a knot - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Remove, as a knot - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Loosen, as a shoe - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Free from bondage - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Release, in a way - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Loose - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Release from ropes - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Loosen, as a shoelace - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Loosen, like laces - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Fix, as laces - RETIE, used 14 times
- Loosen up - RELAX, used 14 times
- Loosen, in a way - UNPIN, used 9 times
- Moccasin without laces - SNAKE, used 9 times
- Laces into - HASAT, used 8 times
- Adjust, as laces - RETIE, used 7 times
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