Love handles, essentially
The crossword clue "Love handles, essentially" is answered by FLAB, a 4-letter entry. Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLAB
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLAB answer page.
Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FLAB
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLAB, most used first.
- Spare tire - used 28 times, most recently in 2020
- Dieter's target - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Exerciser's target - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Liposuction target - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Bodybuilder's bane - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Exercise target - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Spare tire, so to speak - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Workout target - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Blubber - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Love handles - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Spare tire makeup - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Exerciser's excess weight - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Extra weight - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Flaccid flesh - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Spare tire material? - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Weightlifter's bane - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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