Ties up the phone
The crossword clue "Ties up the phone" is answered by YAKS, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
YAKS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YAKS answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for YAKS
Every other clue in this collection answered by YAKS, most used first.
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- Tibetan herd - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Jabbers - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Talks and talks - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Talks nonstop - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Tibetan oxen - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Tibetan beasts - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Won't shut up - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Beasts of burden - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Chews the fat - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Goes on and on - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Shaggy bovines - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Shoots the breeze - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Gabs - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Rattles on - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Talks on and on - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Asian oxen - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Chatters away - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Himalayan bovines - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Long-haired oxen - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Tibetan bovines - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Wild oxen - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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