"If all ___ fails ..."
The crossword clue ""If all ___ fails ..."" is answered by ELSE, a 4-letter entry. Used 345 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 29 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
ELSE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELSE answer page.
Used 345 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 29 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ELSE
Every other clue in this pilot answered by ELSE, most used first.
- Otherwise - used 1,353 times, most recently in 2026
- "What ___ is new?" - used 224 times, most recently in 2026
- "So what ___ is new?" - used 221 times, most recently in 2026
- If not - used 199 times, most recently in 2026
- Other - used 190 times, most recently in 2025
- Alternatively - used 178 times, most recently in 2026
- "Anything ___?" - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
- "What ___ can I say?" - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
- Besides that - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
- Differently - used 94 times, most recently in 2025
- Ultimatum ender - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Ultimatum word - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Pilot clues 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.
- All over again - ANEW, used 269 times
- All there - SANE, used 134 times
- Prefix meaning "all" - OMNI, used 119 times
- All tied up - EVEN, used 105 times
- Fails to be - ISNT, used 104 times
- Not all - SOME, used 97 times
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