"Jack Sprat could ___ ..."

The answer

EATNO

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

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• EATNOFAT (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for EATNO

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

• "Jack Sprat could ___ fat" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• " . . . could ___ fat" - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• "His wife could ___ lean" - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• " . . . could ___ lean" - used 9 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.

• Jack - KNAVE, used 40 times
• Jack of "The Great Dictator" - OAKIE, used 31 times
• "Jack __ could eat no fat..." - SPRAT, used 30 times
• "... but I could be wrong" - ORNOT, used 29 times
• Jack who ate no fat - SPRAT, used 20 times
• "I wish I could ___ that" - UNSEE, used 17 times

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