___ out (just manage)
The crossword clue "___ out (just manage)" is answered by EKE, a 3-letter entry. Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
EKE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EKE answer page.
Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EKE
Every other clue in this collection answered by EKE, most used first.
- ___ out a living - used 426 times, most recently in 2026
- Squeeze (out) - used 214 times, most recently in 2026
- Scratch (out) - used 125 times, most recently in 2026
- Barely manage, with "out" - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
- Scrape (out) - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Barely make, with "out" - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
- Supplement, with "out" - used 69 times, most recently in 2024
- Just manage, with "out" - used 49 times, most recently in 2024
- ___ out a win - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Scrape (by) - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Stretch (out) - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Just make, with "out" - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- ___ out (barely make) - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- __ out (supplement) - used 27 times, most recently in 2015
- Manage, with "out" - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- __ out a living; get by - used 25 times, most recently in 2022
- Barely achieve (with "out") - used 24 times, most recently in 2017
- ___ out a living (just get by) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Make do, with "out" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Conk out - DIE, used 239 times
- Rent out - LET, used 200 times
- Just out - NEW, used 146 times
- Crossed (out) - XED, used 120 times
- Stick (out) - JUT, used 116 times
- "... ___ he drove out of sight" - ERE, used 114 times
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