It may be cured

The answer

HAM

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HAM answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• MEAT (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for HAM

Every other clue in this collection answered by HAM, most used first.

• Deli meat - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Sandwich meat - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
• Scenery chewer - used 53 times, most recently in 2024
• Bad actor - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Deli choice - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Son of Noah - used 26 times, most recently in 2021
• Scene stealer - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Pork product - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Show-off - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Ark passenger - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
• Breakfast meat - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Croque-monsieur ingredient - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Easter entree - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Western omelet ingredient - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Stage hog - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Denver omelet ingredient - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Emoter - used 14 times, most recently in 2013
• Hawaiian pizza topping - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonkosher meat - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Lunch meat - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Meat on a Hawaiian-style pizza - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Prosciutto, e.g. - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Noah's second son - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Omelet ingredient - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Omelet option - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Overactor - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Prosciutto - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• "Green Eggs and ___" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Over-the-top actor - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Overacting actor - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Spotlight hog - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Amateur radio operator - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Boar's Head product - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Eggs Benedict ingredient - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Meat in a Cuban sandwich - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Unlikely Oscar nominee - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Easter meat - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Meat in a croque monsieur - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Mugger? - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• __ and cheese sandwich - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Chicken cordon bleu ingredient - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Cuban sandwich ingredient - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Denver omelet meat - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Easter fare - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Meat in many omelets - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Radio operator - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Western omelet meat - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• May honoree - MOM, used 152 times
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• It may follow you - ARE, used 24 times
• "Maggie May" singer Stewart - ROD, used 21 times
• It may be bitter - END, used 19 times

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