Bother persistently
The crossword clue "Bother persistently" is answered by EATAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. 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
EATAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EATAT answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 9 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.
Other clues for EATAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by EATAT, most used first.
- Bother - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Really bother - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Really annoy - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Annoy - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Worry - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Patronize, as a restaurant - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Bother greatly - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ Joe's" - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
- Trouble - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Bother incessantly - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Really bug - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Vex - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Erode - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Bother a lot - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Bother terribly - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Continuously bother - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Annoy persistently - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Bother continuously - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Bother no end - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Bug - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Irritate - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Really irritate - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Vex incessantly - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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.
- Bother - ANNOY, used 64 times
- Bother persistently - NAGAT, used 31 times
- Don't bother - LETBE, used 23 times
- Not bother - LETBE, used 13 times
- Be a bother to - ANNOY, used 10 times
- Bothered persistently - ATEAT, used 9 times
Search the clue collection
Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.