Bone to pick
The crossword clue "Bone to pick" is answered by BEEF, a 4-letter entry. Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BEEF
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BEEF answer page.
Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BEEF
Every other clue in this collection answered by BEEF, most used first.
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- Gripe - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
- Hamburger meat - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Grievance - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Red meat - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- "Where's the ___?" - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Complain - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Butcher-shop buy - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Bellyache - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Burrito filling - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Strengthen, with "up" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Arm bone - ULNA, used 409 times
- Forearm bone - ULNA, used 317 times
- Bone-dry - ARID, used 167 times
- Bone: Prefix - OSTE, used 156 times
- Bad to the bone - EVIL, used 115 times
- Bone-dry - SERE, used 60 times
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