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The answer

AJAR

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AJAR answer page.

Used 56 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AJAR

Every other clue in this collection answered by AJAR, most used first.

• Slightly open - used 322 times, most recently in 2026
• Not quite closed - used 149 times, most recently in 2026
• Cracked - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Not quite shut - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Open a bit - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Partly open - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Open a crack - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
• Cracked open - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Open - used 41 times, most recently in 2021
• Open slightly - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Slightly open, as a door - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Slightly cracked - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Barely open - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Not fully closed - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Not in harmony - used 28 times, most recently in 1993
• A bit cracked - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Discordant - used 24 times, most recently in 2002
• Not closed all the way - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Partially open - used 23 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.

• Close by - NEAR, used 299 times
• Close - NEAR, used 263 times
• Close - SHUT, used 154 times
• "That was close!" - PHEW, used 117 times
• Comes to a close - ENDS, used 97 times
• Close to - NEAR, used 89 times

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