Squeaked (by)

The answer

EKED

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

Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 7 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.

• MADEDO (6 uses in xd)

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 (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 a victory (barely won) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• -- 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.

• Otherwise - ELSE, used 1,353 times
• Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• Therefore - ERGO, used 684 times
• Gaelic - ERSE, used 679 times
• Raison d'___ - ETRE, used 658 times

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