Better than fair
The crossword clue "Better than fair" is answered by GOOD, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GOOD
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GOOD answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GOOD
Every other clue in this collection answered by GOOD, most used first.
- Well-behaved - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
- Suitable - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Virtuous - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Beneficial - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- "Well done!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Evil fighter - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Tasty - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Yummy - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Saintly - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Satisfactory - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- "Glad to hear it!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Not bad - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Favorable - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- "No news is __ news" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Word of approval - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Nothing more than - MERE, used 159 times
- Get better - HEAL, used 156 times
- Larger-than-life - EPIC, used 101 times
- Fair-to-middling - SOSO, used 95 times
- Fair - SOSO, used 87 times
- More than - OVER, used 86 times
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