Rid
Crossword Clue and Answers

Looking for answers to the "Rid" crossword clue? it's your lucky day, we have them! Today we have 27 crossword solutions for Rid.

We most recently saw this clue in Evening Standard Quick Crossword.

We deem Rid to be a VERY COMMON crossword clue as we've seen it more than 27 times in a variety of crossword publications.

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Publications

  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Tuesday, 16 Nov 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 6 May 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 28 Jan 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 21 Jan 2021
  • The Guardian Quick - Friday, 8 May 2020

Crossword Answers

4 letters

FREE
People who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"

5 letters

CLEAR
A clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water; "finally broke out of the forest into the open"

PURGE
An abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place; "he died in a purge by Stalin"

FREED

CLEAN
A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

6 letters

UNLOAD
Leave or unload; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel"

DEVOID
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

DIVEST
Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"

PURGED

7 letters

CLEARED
Rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush; "cleared land"; "cleared streets free of fallen trees and debris"; "a cleared passage through the underbrush"; "played poker on the cleared dining room table"

DELIVER
Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.); "The students delivered a cry of joy"

ABOLISH
Do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

CLEANSE
Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"

EXPUNGE
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

RELIEVE
Relieve oneself of troubling information

DISPOSE
Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them"

8 letters

DISABUSE
Free somebody (from an erroneous belief)

UNBURDEN
Take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey"

RELIEVED
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

LIBERATE
Give equal rights to; of women and minorities

9 letters

ELIMINATE
Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"

ERADICATE
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

DISBURDEN
Take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey"

10 letters

UNBURDENED
Not encumbered with a physical burden or load

11 letters

DISENCUMBER
Release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"

12 letters

DISEMBARRASS
Relieve from; "Rid the house of pests"