"Goodness!"
The crossword clue ""Goodness!"" is answered by DEARME, a 6-letter entry. Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEARME
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEARME answer page.
Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DEARME
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEARME, most used first.
- "Heavens!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- "Heavens to Betsy!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- "Alas!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
- "Goodness gracious!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- "Gracious!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- "Oh, my!" - used 8 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.
- Honest-to-goodness - ACTUAL, used 21 times
- "Goodness gracious!" - OHDEAR, used 11 times
- "My goodness!" - OHDEAR, used 10 times
- "Goodness me!" - OHDEAR, used 6 times
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