"Just ___!" ("Hold on!")

The answer

ASEC

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

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 5 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.

• AMO (2 uses in xd)
• HANGTIGHT (2 uses in xd)
• INASEC (2 uses in xd)
• WAIT (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ASEC

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

• "Hold on ___!" - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• "Just ___!" - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• "Wait ___!" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• In -- (shortly) - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• "Wait just ___!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• "Hang on ___" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "Gimme ___!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• "Hey, wait ___!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• "Be there in __" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "Be with you in __!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Just - ONLY, used 190 times
• Just slightly - ATAD, used 134 times
• Just slightly - ABIT, used 86 times
• Just sitting around - IDLE, used 85 times
• Hold sway - RULE, used 77 times
• "___ Only Just Begun" - WEVE, used 61 times

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