To make a buzzer loud, takes power(4 letters)

Below is the answer to the crossword clue “To make a buzzer loud, takes power”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 5th January 2026.

The answer is

B E E F

4 letters · most recently seen on 5th January 2026

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#23 across Cattle meat (4) 25th June 2026
#4 down Meat (4) 22nd May 2026
#5 down To make a buzzer loud, takes power (4) 5th January 2026
#13 across Red meat (4) 23rd November 2025
#3 down Red meat (4) 20th September 2025
#30 down Red meat (4) 27th May 2025
#13 across Red meat (4) 25th March 2025
#33 down Red meat (4) 11th March 2025
#3 down Red meat (4) 14th January 2025
#37 across Complain about the food? (4) 10th January 2025
#20 across Meat (4) 20th September 2024
#19 across Might but don't suffer in silence (4) 19th July 2024
#30 down Kind of cake unsuitable for vegetarians? (4) 13th June 2024
#27 across Opposite of cheese, in a sense (4) 7th February 2024
#3 down Red meat (4) 26th October 2023
#30 down Red meat (4) 27th October 2022
#33 down Red meat (4) 17th February 2022
#17 across Grouse, yes, but it doesn't taste the same (4) 3rd February 2022
#19 across Might or won't be eaten by the vegetarian (4) 24th December 2021
#23 across Red meat (4) 27th October 2021
#23 across Cattle meat (4) 5th May 2021
#4 down Meat (4) 22nd December 2020
#33 down The opposite of cheese, in a sense (4) 17th September 2020
#5 down To make a buzzer loud, takes power (4) 13th August 2020
#13 across Red meat (4) 4th June 2020
#3 down Red meat (4) 13th February 2020
#37 across Complain about the food? (4) 24th January 2020
#1 across Meat (4) 9th October 2019
#5 down Muscular power transforms some of the feeble (4) 22nd August 2019
#24 across Meat (4) 16th August 2019
#19 across Might but don’t suffer in silence (4) 9th August 2019
#33 down Red meat (4) 25th July 2019
#5 down To a six-footer, a loud complaint (4) 20th June 2019
#30 down Red meat (4) 6th February 2019
#13 across Red meat (4) 6th December 2018
#33 down Red meat (4) 22nd November 2018
#3 down Red meat (4) 4th October 2018
#20 across Meat (4) 27th July 2018
#30 down Kind of cake unsuitable for vegetarians? (4) 28th March 2018

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#1 down Quick way to get fit by exercise (5)
#2 down A bit of a pig maybe sets out to live in them (5)
#3 down Dear Charles has that roguish quality (4)
#4 across Where to shoot duck in the W. Indies (6)
#4 down Of tribal significance, it can carry a lot (5)
#6 down In general, like the past? (6)
#7 across Final defeat in a pool game, possibly? (8)
#8 across Song belter maybe? (6)
#9 down News story about the Left? (6)
#10 across Meat that comes in pots? (5)