Quick escape

The answer

LAM

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

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LAM

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

• On the ___ (fleeing) - used 188 times, most recently in 2026
• Hasty escape - used 92 times, most recently in 2025
• Felon's flight - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• Flight - used 65 times, most recently in 2024
• On the ___ - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Escape - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Hurried flight - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Flee - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• On the ___ (at large) - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Skedaddle - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Beat it - used 20 times, most recently in 2018
• Fugitive's flight - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• On the ___ (running away) - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Run for it - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
• Hightail it - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Take it on the ___ - used 18 times, most recently in 2009
• On the ___ (escaping) - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Flee hastily - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Hasty flight - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Take a powder - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• Felonious flight - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Flight from the law - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• On the ___ (hiding out) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Flight from justice - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Thrash - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
• Go on the ___ (skip town) - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Hood's exit - used 9 times, most recently in 1990
• On the ___ (running from the law) - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Sudden flight - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Fast flight - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Go on the __ - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Quick flight - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Bolt - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Head for the hills - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Skip town - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• On the ___ (fleeing the law) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• On the ___ (hiding) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• On the -- (in hiding) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Quick swim - DIP, used 134 times
• Quick punch - JAB, used 97 times
• Quick to learn - APT, used 71 times
• Quick snooze - NAP, used 57 times
• Quick on the uptake - APT, used 32 times
• Quick - APT, used 23 times

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