By what means

The answer

HOW

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

Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HOW

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

• "In what way?" - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
• Explanation - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Question of method - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ do you do?" - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• A question of method - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "And ___!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Questioning word - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ about that!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• A question of procedure - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• In what manner - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Reporter's query - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• A question of technique - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ dare you!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Question of methodology - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• ___-to - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• "What did I tell you?" - SEE, used 155 times
• By means of - VIA, used 95 times
• "What Kind of Fool __?" - AMI, used 90 times
• "Say what?" - HUH, used 89 times
• "What have we here?!" - OHO, used 84 times
• "What ___, chopped liver?" - AMI, used 77 times

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