"... ___ and buts were candy and nuts ..."
The crossword clue ""... ___ and buts were candy and nuts ..."" is answered by IFS, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
IFS
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Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for IFS
Every other clue in this collection answered by IFS, most used first.
- "No ___, ands or buts!" - used 167 times, most recently in 2026
- Conditions - used 157 times, most recently in 2026
- Hypotheticals - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
- Uncertainties - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Suppositions - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Contingencies - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Stipulations - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Possibilities - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Qualifiers - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Preconditions - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Provisos - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Unknown factors - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Hypothetical cases - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Uncertain factors - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Maybes - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Conditionals - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Unsettled questions - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- And so on: Abbr. - ETC, used 238 times
- ___ and outs - INS, used 193 times
- Get-up-and-go - PEP, used 188 times
- Put two and two together - ADD, used 138 times
- Half and half - ONE, used 131 times
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