"...nothing to fear but fear __"

The answer

ITSELF

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ITSELF answer page.

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ITSELF

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

• Reflexive pronoun - used 25 times, most recently in 2020
• In and of ___ - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Pronoun. - used 9 times, most recently in 1973
• The "se" in per se - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• ". . . is fear __" - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "The only thing we have to fear is fear ___" - used 8 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.

• Intense fear - TERROR, used 31 times
• Extreme fear - TERROR, used 20 times
• "Close, but no cigar" - ALMOST, used 16 times
• Irrational fear - PHOBIA, used 16 times
• "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer O'Connor - SINEAD, used 15 times
• Shrink in fear - CRINGE, used 15 times

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