Answer: RECEDE
RECEDE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 36 times.
Referring Clues:
- Ebb
 - Move away
 - Many hairlines do it
 - Withdraw
 - Go back
 - Many men's hairlines do this
 - Fall away
 - Peter out
 - Reveal more forehead
 - Move back
 - Subside
 - Give ground gradually
 - Flow back
 - Lose ground
 - Withdraw gradually
 - Fall back
 - Abate
 - Go back, as a hairline
 - Inch back
 - Drop back
 - A hairline may do it
 - Draw back
 - Gradually diminish
 - Diminish
 - Wane
 - Ease off
 - A hairline can do it
 - What gums might do
 - Slope backward
 - Move backward
 - Draw back, as one's hairline
 - What coastlines may do
 - Ebb, as the tide
 - Decline, as floodwaters
 - Lessen, as the tide
 - What coastlines and hairlines may do
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 19, 2025
 - LA Times - August 03, 2025
 - LA Times - March 08, 2024
 - USA Today - December 04, 2023
 - LA Times - June 04, 2023
 - LA Times - July 12, 2022
 - Universal - January 19, 2021
 - LA Times - September 22, 2020
 - Netword - April 22, 2019
 - LA Times - March 09, 2019
 - New York Times - January 03, 2019
 - Netword - September 10, 2018
 - Universal - August 01, 2018
 - USA Today - March 22, 2018
 - King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - December 10, 2017
 - Netword - November 02, 2017
 - Netword - July 31, 2017
 - Canadiana - March 06, 2017
 - New York Times - January 14, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 05, 2016
 
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