___ out a victory (barely won)

The answer

EKED

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

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EKED

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

• Squeezed (out) - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Scratched (out) - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
• Supplemented, with "out" - used 80 times, most recently in 2016
• Barely managed, with "out" - used 43 times, most recently in 2023
• Scraped (out) - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Barely made, with "out" - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• __ out a living - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Just managed, with "out" - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ out a living (scraped by) - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Scraped (by) - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ out a living (barely got by) - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ out (barely managed) - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Pieced (out). - used 18 times, most recently in 1998
• -- out (supplemented) - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Made do, with "out" - used 16 times, most recently in 2003
• Managed, with "out" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ out a living (barely scraped by) - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• __ out a living; got by - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• ___ out a living (just got by) - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Just got (by) - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• ___ out (barely got) - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Stretched (out) - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Squeaked (by) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Squeaked (out) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Squeezed (by) - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Just made, with "out" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• -- out (got by) - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• __ out a win - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ out (made, but barely) - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• ___ out (made do) - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Scraped by, with "out" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Barely managed - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Just got by, with "out" - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Made do - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
• ___ out (barely made) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ out (just managed) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Barely got, with "out" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Scraped together, with "out" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Squeezed - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• Leave out - OMIT, used 929 times
• Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
• Try out - TEST, used 242 times
• Send out - EMIT, used 240 times
• Out of control - AMOK, used 212 times
• Dole (out) - METE, used 206 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.