Over one's head
The crossword clue "Over one's head" is answered by ALOFT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ALOFT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALOFT answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 4 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.
- AROOF (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for ALOFT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALOFT, most used first.
- Up in the air - used 124 times, most recently in 2026
- In the air - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- High up - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Overhead - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Soaring - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Up - used 25 times, most recently in 2021
- Up in the sky - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- High in the sky - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Flying - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- On high - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Airborne - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- In flight - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Among the clouds - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Flying high - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- In the sky - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Skyward - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- In the clouds - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Like an eagle in flight - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Over - ENDED, used 170 times
- On one's toes - ALERT, used 150 times
- Monastery head - ABBOT, used 133 times
- Take as one's own - ADOPT, used 111 times
- Blow one's top - ERUPT, used 95 times
- Freeze over - ICEUP, used 86 times
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