"-- you!" (challenger's cry)

The answer

IDARE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDARE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IDARE

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

• Start of a challenge - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Do ___ to eat a peach?": Eliot - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• "Do ___?" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• "Do ___ to eat a peach?" (T.S. Eliot) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Come on, ___ you!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• "___ you!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2005

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.

• "As You Like It" forest - ARDEN, used 79 times
• "__ you clever!" - ARENT, used 54 times
• "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" musical - EVITA, used 48 times
• "___ Kick Out of You" - IGETA, used 48 times
• "You ___ Beautiful" - ARESO, used 46 times
• You are here - EARTH, used 44 times

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