"___ is more"

The answer

LESS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LESS answer page.

Used 38 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 19 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• ARE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for LESS

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

• Not as much - used 378 times, most recently in 2026
• Minus - used 321 times, most recently in 2026
• Not so much - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
• Reduced amount - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Fewer - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Not as expensive - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Discounted by - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
• More or ___ - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• A smaller amount - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Reduced by - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Subtraction word - used 31 times, most recently in 2020
• Smaller amount - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Amount to make do with - used 28 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.

• Nothing more than - MERE, used 159 times
• More than - OVER, used 86 times
• "One more thing . . ." - ALSO, used 59 times
• More than half - MOST, used 50 times
• More than want - NEED, used 41 times
• More than a few - MANY, used 40 times

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