Easy basketball shot
The crossword clue "Easy basketball shot" is answered by LAYUP, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LAYUP
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LAYUP answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LAYUP
Every other clue in this collection answered by LAYUP, most used first.
- Easy basket - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Easy two-pointer - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Basketball shot - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Simple basket - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Take it easy - RELAX, used 103 times
- Takes it easy - RESTS, used 45 times
- Billiards shot - MASSE, used 41 times
- Easy ___ - ASABC, used 35 times
- Billiard shot - MASSE, used 34 times
- Billiards shot - CAROM, used 34 times
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