Extract by force
The crossword clue "Extract by force" is answered by WREST, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; 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
WREST
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WREST answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; 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 WREST
Every other clue in this collection answered by WREST, most used first.
- Take by force - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Take forcibly - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Seize - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Seize by force - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Take forcefully - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
- Snatch forcibly - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Usurp - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Seize forcibly - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Seize (from) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Take away by force - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Extort - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Units of force - DYNES, used 116 times
- With full force - AMAIN, used 58 times
- Seize by force - USURP, used 46 times
- Take by force - USURP, used 45 times
- Force back - REPEL, used 41 times
- Force - IMPEL, used 40 times
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