Top Three Letter Words
For Crossword Solvers
The Most Important Crossword Answers to Learn
Here is a list of the 3 letter words that appear with the greatest frequency in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. I've included a range of clues for each answer to give you a feel for the variety of clues you are likely to meet when attempting a crossword puzzle.
As you'll see, knowing the 3 letter words is easy. Finding the answers from an obscure clue is another thing altogether...
- ALE
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- Relative of beer
- It might help wash down a banger
- Bass, for one
- Old Foghorn, e.g.
- Lead-in for house or wife
- Schooner's contents, maybe
- ALI
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- Muhammad ___
- 2001 role for Will Smith
- Clay, now
- Foreman's superior
- Poetic pugilist
- His won-lost record was 56-5
- ARE
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- "___ we there yet?"
- Exist
- "You ___ There" (50's TV show)
- Is for two
- Cost
- Be a different way?
- ATE
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- Had a meal
- Supped
- Put away
- Took the cake?
- Had a little lamb
- Came to a fast stop
- ELI
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- Pharmaceutical giant ___ Lilly
- Yale student
- Harvadite's rival
- Letter "Y" wearer
- Bush or Taft
- Descendant of Aaron, in the Bible
- ENE
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- Opposite WSW
- Ethyl finish
- Cincinnati-to-New York dir.
- Wind dir.
- 67.5 degrees
- Hydrocarbon suffix
- ERA
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- History segment
- Time worth remembering
- Pitcher's stat.
- Oft-nicknamed period
- Diamond stat.
- Time piece?
- ERE
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- Before, poetically
- Bard's before
- Poet's preposition
- "___ Time transfigured me": Yeats
- Before, before
- It may appear before long
- ETA
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- When the pilot is due in, for short
- Greek H
- Hellenic vowel
- ___ Pi (dessert lover's fraternity?)
- Viscosity symbol, in physics
- Touchdown info
- ONE
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- Last number in countdown
- Digit in binary code
- No longer divided
- Wedded
- Simple ticket order
- Next to nothing?
- ORE
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- Valuable rocks
- Bauxite or magnetite
- Something to slag
- It's found in veins
- Swedish coins
- It might be found in a rush
By the way... if you're after more obscure common crossword answers, you'll probably enjoy reading Crossword Ease - The SECRET Language of Crossword Puzzles.
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