Lasting mark

The answer

SCAR

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

Used 144 times across 27 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SCAR

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

• Cicatrix - used 141 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Lion King" villain - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
• Lasting impression - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Surgery souvenir - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Blemish - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Surgery reminder - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Wound reminder - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Surgery memento - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Mark. - used 39 times, most recently in 2006
• Mark for life - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Isolated rock. - used 28 times, most recently in 1996
• "Lion King" villain - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Traumatize - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Battle memento - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
• Fight memento - used 21 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.

• Editor's mark - STET, used 62 times
• Misses the mark - ERRS, used 55 times
• Make a lasting impression - ETCH, used 46 times
• Proofreader's mark - STET, used 37 times
• Mark Harmon TV series - NCIS, used 31 times
• Beauty mark - MOLE, used 30 times

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