Head lines, for short?

The answer

EEG

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EEG answer page.

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• EEGS (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for EEG

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

• Brain scan, for short - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Brain scan letters - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Hosp. readout - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Brain scan, briefly - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Brain-wave ltrs. - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• Hosp. test - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Med. printout - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Brain test, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Brain wave test, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• ER readout - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Neurologist's order, briefly - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Brain wave readout, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• For each - PER, used 391 times
• Swelled head - EGO, used 353 times
• "For shame!" - TSK, used 208 times
• Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
• Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times
• "For __ a jolly good fellow..." - HES, used 155 times

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