Handful of
The crossword clue "Handful of" is answered by FEW, a 3-letter entry. Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FEW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FEW answer page.
Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 3 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
- ___ and far between - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Chosen number? - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
- 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.
- Babysitter's handful - IMP, used 30 times
- Sitter's handful - IMP, used 24 times
- Little handful - IMP, used 9 times
- Crew member's handful - OAR, used 8 times
- Small handful - IMP, used 8 times
- Rapper's handful - MIC, used 6 times
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