Center of a bagel

The answer

HOLE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOLE answer page.

Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HOLE

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

• Golf target - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Golfer's target - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Bagel feature - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Pit - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Swiss cheese feature - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Putter's target - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
• Bagel's center - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Donut's center - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Green feature - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Cavity - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Logical flaw - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Opening - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Place for an ace - used 18 times, most recently in 2013
• Aperture - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
• Bagel center - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Burrow. - used 14 times, most recently in 2014
• Financial predicament - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Gap - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf goal - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• You can dig it - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Donut center - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Doughnut feature - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Pocket problem - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Green target - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Woodpecker's creation - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Predicament - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
• Tiger's target - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Boring result - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Courtney Love's band - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Doughnut center - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of a golf course. - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Perforation - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
• Donut feature - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ in one - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• One of 18 on a golf course - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Darn it! - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Links unit - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Putting target - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Ace in the __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Empty space - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Golfer's goal - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• You may dig this - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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 center of - AMID, used 211 times
• Italian wine center - ASTI, used 150 times
• Trading center - MART, used 70 times
• Apple center - CORE, used 68 times
• Center - CORE, used 57 times
• Apple's center - CORE, used 54 times

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