"Uh, excuse me"
The crossword clue ""Uh, excuse me"" is answered by AHEM, a 4-letter entry. Used 22 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
AHEM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AHEM answer page.
Used 22 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AHEM
Every other clue in this collection answered by AHEM, most used first.
- "Excuse me ..." - used 198 times, most recently in 2026
- Throat-clearing sound - used 180 times, most recently in 2026
- Attention getter - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- "Pardon me" - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
- "Beg pardon ..." - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Throat clearer - used 75 times, most recently in 2025
- Attention-getting sound - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- "I'm standing right here!" - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Polite interruption - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- "Um, excuse me" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Weak, as an excuse - LAME, used 47 times
- Poor, as an excuse - LAME, used 36 times
- Flimsy, as an excuse - LAME, used 23 times
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