It holds the mayo

The answer

JAR

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

Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for JAR

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

• Cookie container - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Pickle holder - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Shake up - used 46 times, most recently in 2024
• Pickle container - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Rattle - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
• Cookie holder - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Honey holder - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Jelly container - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Unsettle - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Mayo buy - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Peanut butter container - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Shake - used 18 times, most recently in 2017
• Jelly holder - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Pickle buy - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Glass container - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Mayo container - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Shock - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Jam holder - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Jostle - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Bump - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Container - used 11 times, most recently in 1999
• Jolt - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Pickle purchase - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Preserves preserver - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Salsa container - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Clash - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Mason ___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Mayonnaise holder - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Peanut butter purchase - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Bell ___" (Sylvia Plath book) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Jam container - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Bump hard - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Crock - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Grate - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• It may be jam-packed - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Place for pennies - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Tip collector - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Tip container - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 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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