Men and boys

The answer

HES

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

Used 19 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 9 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.

• MALES (8 uses in xd)

Other clues for HES

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

• "For __ a jolly good fellow..." - used 155 times, most recently in 2026
• "For ___ a jolly ..." - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• "For ___ a jolly good ..." - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
• Men - used 48 times, most recently in 2019
• Cock and bull - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ So Fine" - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Guys - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Males - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• "-- a Rebel" - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ Just Not That Into You" - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Fathers and sons - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
• "___ making a list ..." - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• The Chiffons' "___ So Fine" - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ a real nowhere man ..." - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Chaps - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Fellows - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• First word of "Nowhere Man" - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• "__ Just Not That Into You"; 2009 film - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ So Fine" (Chiffons hit) - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ So Shy" (Pointer Sisters hit) - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ a Rebel" (1962 hit) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ dead, Jim" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ got the whole world ..." - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ So Shy" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• The Pointer Sisters' "___ So Shy" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Bucks and bulls - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Cocks and bulls - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• "___ got high hopes ..." (song lyric) - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• "___ Just Not That Into You" (2009 rom-com) - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• First word of the Beatles' "Nowhere Man" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• The Crystals' "___ a Rebel" - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• "... ___a jolly good fellow" - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Bulls and bucks - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• To and ___ - FRO, used 341 times
• And so on: Abbr. - ETC, used 238 times
• ___ and outs - INS, used 193 times
• Get-up-and-go - PEP, used 188 times
• Put two and two together - ADD, used 138 times
• Half and half - ONE, used 131 times

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