Marbling in meat

The answer

FAT

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

Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for FAT

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

• Budgetary excess - used 52 times, most recently in 2025
• Diet no-no - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Corpulent - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Blubber - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Obese - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
• Dieter's no-no - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ Tuesday (Mardi Gras) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "My Big ___ Greek Wedding" - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Dietary concern - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ chance!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• The 2% in 2% milk - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Chubby - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Liposuction target - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Portly - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Prosperous. - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• Skim milk's lack - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Butcher's trimmings - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Jack Sprat's no-no - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Love handles, essentially - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Overweight - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• -- Tuesday - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Excess - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Lucrative - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• "Salt ___ Acid Heat" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Falstaffian - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Lard - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Like Falstaff - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Plump. - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Roly-poly - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Skim milk extract - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Sprat's taboo - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• The 1% in 1% milk - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Dieter's concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Lucrative, as a contract - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Mrs. Sprat's diet - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Saturated ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Deli meat - HAM, used 60 times
• Sandwich meat - HAM, used 54 times
• Breakfast meat - HAM, used 16 times
• "Some ___ meat . . . ": Burns - HAE, used 16 times
• Nonkosher meat - HAM, used 13 times
• Type of meat or pepper - RED, used 13 times

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