Pick up
The crossword clue "Pick up" is answered by GAIN, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1995. 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
GAIN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GAIN answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for GAIN
Every other clue in this collection answered by GAIN, most used first.
- Profit - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
- Acquire - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Make progress - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Put on weight - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Increase - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- "No pain, no ___" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Make headway - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Put on pounds - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Put on - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Weight increase - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Acquisition - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Advance - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Benefit - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Investor's hope - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Ready to pick - RIPE, used 50 times
- "Pick me! Pick me!" - OHOH, used 31 times
- Pick out of a crowd - SPOT, used 19 times
- Bone to pick - BEEF, used 18 times
- Something to pick - BONE, used 14 times
- Pick out - CULL, used 13 times
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