Poor, as excuses go
The crossword clue "Poor, as excuses go" is answered by LAME, a 4-letter entry. Used 24 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus.
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LAME
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Used 24 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for LAME
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- Weak, as an excuse - used 47 times, most recently in 2022
- Metallic fabric - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some excuses - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Poor, as an excuse - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Unconvincing - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Hobbling - used 31 times, most recently in 2021
- Kind of duck - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
- Flimsy, as an excuse - used 23 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.
- Poor grades - DEES, used 75 times
- "___, poor Yorick!" - ALAS, used 75 times
- "Poor me!" - ALAS, used 37 times
- Money for the poor - ALMS, used 32 times
- "___ for the poor" - ALMS, used 31 times
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