Operate properly
The crossword clue "Operate properly" is answered by WORK, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1999. 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
WORK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WORK answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WORK
Every other clue in this collection answered by WORK, most used first.
- Labor - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Employment - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Function - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Do the trick - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- ___-friendly (easy to operate) - USER, used 38 times
- Properly - DULY, used 12 times
- Operate with a beam - LASE, used 11 times
- ___-friendly (simple to operate) - USER, used 10 times
- Properly aged - RIPE, used 7 times
- Get ready to operate - PREP, used 6 times
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