"__ you dare!"

The answer

DONT

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• WOULDNT (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for DONT

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

• Word of warning - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Prohibition. - used 20 times, most recently in 2006
• Warning word - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• "Stop that!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cut it out!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• Parent's warning - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• "Stop it!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Parental warning - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "Cut that out!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Terse warning - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Stop!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• "Bad idea" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Common contraction - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• "___ even go there!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ Fence Me In" - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• "___ tread on me" - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Mother's admonition - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• "You ___ say!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• "Hey, you!" - PSST, used 325 times
• "You said it!" - AMEN, used 257 times
• "Would ___ to you?" - ILIE, used 135 times
• "Are you ___ out?" - INOR, used 102 times
• "You can say that again!" - AMEN, used 93 times
• "You wish!" - ASIF, used 73 times

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