Show some muscle
The crossword clue "Show some muscle" is answered by FLEX, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLEX
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLEX answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FLEX
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLEX, most used first.
- Bend - used 51 times, most recently in 2025
- Show off one's muscles - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Show off one's biceps - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Move a muscle - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Show off at the gym - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Bend, as biceps - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- "Weird ___, but OK" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Muscle quality - TONE, used 139 times
- Some - AFEW, used 116 times
- Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
- Trade show - EXPO, used 88 times
- Shoulder muscle, for short - DELT, used 87 times
- Some whiskeys - RYES, used 81 times
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