"What ___ up must come down"
The crossword clue ""What ___ up must come down"" is answered by GOES, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
GOES
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GOES answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GOES
Every other clue in this collection answered by GOES, most used first.
- Departs - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
- Leaves - used 75 times, most recently in 2025
- Takes off - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- "Here ___ nothing!" - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- "Anything __" - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
- Proceeds - used 18 times, most recently in 2011
- Heads out - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Takes a turn - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Hits the road - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Takes one's turn - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Exits - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Says, in teenspeak - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Travels - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- "Who __ there?" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Attends - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Doesn't stay - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Functions - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Doesn't stick around - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Leaves town - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Operates - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Touched down - ALIT, used 243 times
- "What ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 224 times
- "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
- Pack down - TAMP, used 216 times
- Came down - ALIT, used 186 times
- Must have - NEED, used 172 times
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