___ and far between
The crossword clue "___ and far between" is answered by FEW, a 3-letter entry. Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
FEW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FEW answer page.
Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FEW
Every other clue in this collection answered by FEW, most used first.
- Not many - used 155 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardly any - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Handful - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Not very many - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Small number - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Not a lot - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- "A ___ Good Men" - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Chosen number? - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
- Handful of - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Limited number - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Scarcely any - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Small amount - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- A mere handful - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- A handful - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Sprinkling - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- The chosen? - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Not a lot of - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- A handful of - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Less than some - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Not too many - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- "The ___, the proud, the Marines" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- To and ___ - FRO, used 341 times
- So far - YET, used 251 times
- And so on: Abbr. - ETC, used 238 times
- ___ and outs - INS, used 193 times
- Get-up-and-go - PEP, used 188 times
- Thus far - YET, used 150 times
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