Hand over

The answer

CEDE

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

Used 187 times across 38 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 25 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• GIVE (14 uses in xd)
• DELIVER (7 uses in xd)
• RENDER (3 uses in xd)
• CONSIGN (2 uses in xd)
• FIST (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for CEDE

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

• Give up - used 268 times, most recently in 2026
• Relinquish - used 212 times, most recently in 2026
• Yield - used 124 times, most recently in 2026
• Surrender - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Turn over - used 65 times, most recently in 2024
• Grant - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Sign over - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
• Give up, as territory - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Formally surrender - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Give over - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Relinquish legally - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Surrender, as territory - used 22 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Make over - REDO, used 404 times
• All over again - ANEW, used 269 times
• Over again - ANEW, used 247 times
• "Hey, over here!" - PSST, used 232 times
• At hand - NEAR, used 139 times
• Watch over - TEND, used 139 times

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