Bother
The crossword clue "Bother" is answered by AIL, a 3-letter entry. Used 25 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
AIL
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AIL answer page.
Used 25 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for AIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by AIL, most used first.
- Have a bug - used 201 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel poorly - used 185 times, most recently in 2026
- Trouble - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
- Suffer - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
- Be under the weather - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
- Be sick - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel unwell - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel sick - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Afflict - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel crummy - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel bad - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel lousy - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel under the weather - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Be unwell - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
- Be indisposed - used 45 times, most recently in 2024
- Feel ill - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Feel off - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Have the flu - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Have something - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Distress - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
- Feel out of sorts - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
- Have the blahs - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
- Be out of sorts - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
- Feel awful - used 22 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.
- Bother - ADO, used 105 times
- Bother - IRK, used 79 times
- Big bother - ADO, used 66 times
- Fuss and bother - ADO, used 28 times
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