Not quite shut

The answer

AJAR

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

Used 110 times across 34 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 24 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
• 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
• Close to closed - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• 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.

• Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• If not - ELSE, used 199 times
• Not "fer" - AGIN, used 181 times
• Not pro - ANTI, used 172 times
• Not so much - LESS, used 171 times

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