"__ want for Christmas is . . ."

The answer

ALLI

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALLI answer page.

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALLI

Every other clue in this collection answered by ALLI, most used first.

• "___ want for Christmas..." - used 92 times, most recently in 2023
• "That's -- ask" - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• "For ___ know ..." - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Sheryl Crow's "___ Wanna Do" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Have to Do Is Dream" - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• "That's ___ need!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• "That's -- need to know" - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• "__ want is a room somewhere ..." - used 14 times, most recently in 2008
• "___ Wanna Do" (Sheryl Crow hit) - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ said was ..." - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Do Is Dream of You" - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
• "... for ___ care!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• "It's ___ ever wanted!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• "I am monarch of ___ survey . . . " - used 7 times, most recently in 1985
• "You're __ Need to Get By" - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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