Alternative to an ellipsis

The answer

ETC

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

Used 6 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ETC

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

• And so on: Abbr. - used 238 times, most recently in 2026
• List-ending abbr. - used 200 times, most recently in 2026
• Catchall abbr. - used 147 times, most recently in 2026
• List-shortening abbr. - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
• And so forth: Abbr. - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• And so on - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• And so forth - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• List ender - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
• Series-ending abbr. - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• "Yadda, yadda, yadda" - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• List shortener - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• And so on, for short - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Space-saving abbr. - used 39 times, most recently in 2024
• List-shortening abbreviation - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• And so on, briefly - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• And more: Abbr. - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• "Yada yada yada" - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Catchall abbreviation. - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• And the like: Abbr. - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Series finale? - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• And so forth, for short - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "... you get the idea" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• List abbr. - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• "... you get the idea": Abbr. - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Mail Boxes ___ - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• "You get the picture" - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Yada yada yada" letters - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Inclusive abbr. - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• List-ending letters - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• List shortener, for short - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Lister's abbr. - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Yadda yadda yadda": Abbr. - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• And more - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• End-of-list abbr. - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Handy abbr. - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
• And more, for short - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• And the rest: Abbr. - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• List-ending abbreviation - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• & so forth - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
• And so forth, briefly - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• List-shortening letters - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Space-saving abbreviation - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• All-encompassing abbr. - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• "Blah blah blah" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "And all that jazz" - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• And so on and so forth - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Relative of et al. - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Series ender - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "The list goes on and on" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Too many to list" abbreviation - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "You know the rest" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• List-curtailing letters - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• List-limiting abbr. - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Plus additional things - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Truncation abbr. - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• "Yadda, yadda, yadda," briefly - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Common list ender - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Cousin of et al. - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• "I could go on . . . " - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• List ending, often - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• & so on - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Space-saving letters - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• "The list goes on," briefly - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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