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The answer

ICK

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

Used 14 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 4 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.

• ELEMENT (10 uses in xd)
• AGENT (3 uses in xd)
• WOW (2 uses in xd)
• FEAR (1 uses in xd)
• GENE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ICK

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

• "Gross!" - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• "That's gross!" - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• "Eww!" - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nasty!" - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• "Disgusting!" - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "Yuck!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "That's disgusting!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ugh!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ew!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Bleah!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• "Ewww!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's nasty!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Prime number factor - ONE, used 12 times
• Eligibility factor - AGE, used 9 times
• Prime factor - ONE, used 7 times

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