Put pen to paper
The crossword clue "Put pen to paper" is answered by WRITE, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WRITE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WRITE answer page.
Used 20 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 12 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 WRITE
Every other clue in this collection answered by WRITE, most used first.
- Pen - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Jot down - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Compose - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Correspond - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Form letters? - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Compose a letter - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Put on paper - 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.
- Put up - ERECT, used 263 times
- Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
- Put in office - ELECT, used 120 times
- Put off - DEFER, used 99 times
- Put into law - ENACT, used 97 times
- Put back to zero - RESET, used 85 times
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