Green around the gills

The answer

ILL

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

Used 29 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 13 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.

• SICK (7 uses in xd)
• PALE (1 uses in xd)
• QUEASY (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ILL

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

• Under the weather - used 536 times, most recently in 2026
• Sick - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
• Unwell - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
• Suffering - used 112 times, most recently in 2026
• Not well - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• Ailing - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• Out of sorts - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Poorly - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Not feeling well - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Indisposed - used 47 times, most recently in 2023
• Feeling poorly - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
• Laid up - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Adverse - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Not in the pink - used 32 times, most recently in 2020
• "Well, ___ be!" - used 30 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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Green prefix - ECO, used 431 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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