Uses a shovel
The crossword clue "Uses a shovel" is answered by DIGS, a 4-letter entry. Used 33 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
DIGS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DIGS answer page.
Used 33 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DIGS
Every other clue in this collection answered by DIGS, most used first.
- Pad - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
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