"Why?"
The crossword clue ""Why?"" is answered by HOWSO, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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HOWSO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOWSO answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for HOWSO
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOWSO, most used first.
- "In what way?" - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- "Care to elaborate?" - 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.
- "Don't Know Why" singer Jones - NORAH, used 28 times
- "I Know Why the ___ Bird Sings" - CAGED, used 12 times
- "Why ___ I think of that?" - DIDNT, used 12 times
- "Why should ___?" - ICARE, used 11 times
- "I ___ reason why..." - SEENO, used 6 times
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