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BESTS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BESTS answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BESTS

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

• Defeats - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Outdoes - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Outperforms - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Tops - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• One-ups - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Personal records - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Conquers - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Outplays - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Surpasses - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Triumphs over - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Gets the better of - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Outwits - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Vanquishes - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Outdoes in competition - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Trumps - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Top story - ATTIC, used 108 times
• Blow one's top - ERUPT, used 95 times
• From the top - AGAIN, used 93 times
• Room at the top - ATTIC, used 75 times
• Top of a wave - CREST, used 58 times
• Top-tier - ELITE, used 57 times

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