Common pair?

The answer

EMS

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

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EMS

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

• Ambulance letters - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
• Dash lengths - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• German river - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Type measures - used 59 times, most recently in 2025
• Letters on an ambulance - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Printer's measures - used 49 times, most recently in 2023
• Type squares - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Ambulance initials - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Bad ___ (German spa) - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
• German spa - used 45 times, most recently in 2007
• Print units - used 40 times, most recently in 2024
• Middle of summer? - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Printers' measures - used 25 times, most recently in 2011
• Print measures - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Letters. - used 22 times, most recently in 1996
• Printer's widths - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Printing measures - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• North Sea feeder - used 21 times, most recently in 2014
• Bad ___, Germany - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
• Type widths - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
• Letters after els - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Rheine's river - used 14 times, most recently in 1992
• River to the North Sea - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• Mushroom ends? - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Ambulance abbr. - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Type units - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Ambulance org. - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Long dashes - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Printers' widths - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Typesetting widths - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• 911 responder, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• 911 response org. - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Printing widths - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Three letters in "mommy" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• River in Germany. - used 9 times, most recently in 2002
• Some dashes - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Bad ___. - used 8 times, most recently in 1997
• Bad ___ (German resort) - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• First responder's group, for short - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Letters before ens - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Ambulance inits. - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• German resort - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Initials on an ambulance - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Mommy has three - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Mommy's triplets - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Printing units - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Typesetter's units - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Typesetting measures - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Common verb - ARE, used 198 times
• Pair - DUO, used 173 times
• Pair - TWO, used 107 times
• Common article - THE, used 99 times
• Common street name - ELM, used 85 times
• Common conjunction - AND, used 57 times

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