Some shot

The answer

BBS

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BBS answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BBS

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

• Air rifle ammo - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• Small ammo - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Air gun ammo - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Small shot - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Air gun pellets - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Not-so-big shot - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Cheap shot? - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• No big shot? - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Small pellets - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Air rifle pellets - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Gun pellets - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Small shots - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Some ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Tiny ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Toy gun ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Red Ryder ammo - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Ammo for a Red Ryder - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• King and others - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Little shots - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Some - ANY, used 123 times
• Some MIT grads - EES, used 93 times
• Catch some z's - NAP, used 77 times
• Give it a shot - TRY, used 62 times
• Like some humor - WRY, used 60 times
• Catch some rays - TAN, used 57 times

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