Sit tight
The crossword clue "Sit tight" is answered by WAIT, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WAIT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WAIT answer page.
Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 6 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 WAIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by WAIT, most used first.
- Be patient - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- "Hold on!" - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
- Bide one's time - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Cool one's heels - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
- "Hold your horses!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- "Hold up!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Stand in line - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- "Hold it!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Stand by - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Mark time - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- "Hold on a second!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- "But ___, there's more!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Tarry - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Delay. - used 8 times, most recently in 1980
- "Hold on a sec!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- "Cool your jets" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- "Hurry up and ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Stretched tight - TAUT, used 72 times
- Sit for a portrait - POSE, used 62 times
- Tight-fitting - SNUG, used 49 times
- Doesn't just sit there - ACTS, used 42 times
- Pulled tight - TAUT, used 38 times
- Sit - POSE, used 37 times
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