Answer: LOPS
LOPS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 49 times.
Referring Clues:
- Cuts off
 - Chops (off)
 - Cuts with garden shears
 - Cuts, as branches
 - Takes a bough?
 - Prunes
 - Works on a hedgerow
 - Trims a tree
 - Eliminates as unnecessary
 - Hacks off
 - Uses an ax
 - Trims the tree
 - Cuts off, as tree limbs
 - Cuts off, as branches
 - Cuts
 - Cuts branches from trees
 - Hacks off, as branches
 - Hacks off, as tree limbs
 - Trims, as a tree
 - Cuts (off)
 - Takes the top (off)
 - Severs
 - Hacks (off)
 - Chops off, as branches
 - Cuts off branches
 - Prunes from trees
 - Chops
 - Prunes, as branches
 - Slices off
 - Does some pruning
 - Cuts (off), as a branch
 - Cuts short
 - Performs some tree surgery
 - Hacks
 - Trims (off)
 - Cuts cleanly
 - Truncates
 - Trims, as branches
 - Removes as superfluous
 - More than snips
 - Clips, as branches
 - Removes, as branches
 - Severs, with "off"
 - Prunes from plums, perhaps
 - Cuts off, as tree branches
 - Trims off
 - Cuts with shears, maybe
 - ___ off (severs)
 - ___ off (prunes)
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - May 07, 2025
 - LA Times - April 13, 2024
 - USA Today - June 08, 2023
 - USA Today - February 23, 2022
 - USA Today - August 26, 2021
 - New York Times - December 29, 2020
 - Universal - October 13, 2020
 - Universal - July 21, 2020
 - Universal - July 20, 2020
 - Universal - January 26, 2020
 - Netword - December 08, 2019
 - Netword - November 11, 2019
 - Netword - October 07, 2019
 - Universal - August 23, 2019
 - LA Times - June 07, 2019
 - Netword - May 13, 2019
 - LA Times - April 15, 2019
 - Netword - February 01, 2019
 - USA Today - December 03, 2018
 - LA Times - November 12, 2018
 
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