The one and the other

The answer

BOTH

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

Used 18 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• EITHER (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BOTH

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

• This and that - used 74 times, most recently in 2024
• The two - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• One and the other - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• The two of them - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• The pair - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• This one and that one - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Not just one - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Not just one or the other - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• The two together - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Best of ___ worlds - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Two out of two - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Equally. - used 7 times, most recently in 1991
• Two together - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
• Those two - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "You and me ___!" - 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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• And others: Abbr. - ETAL, used 329 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times

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