The Pointer Sisters' "___ So Shy"

The answer

HES

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

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Men and boys - used 19 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
• 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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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