Temporary financial help
The crossword clue "Temporary financial help" is answered by LOAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LOAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOAN answer page.
Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LOAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by LOAN, most used first.
- Bank offering - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Cash advance - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Bank transaction - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
- Advance - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Mortgage, e.g. - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Credit union offering - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of shark - used 26 times, most recently in 2006
- Give temporarily - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Library transaction - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Bank deal - used 19 times, most recently in 2008
- Lend - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Temporary gift - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Mortgage, for example - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Shark's offering - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Savings partner - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Type of shark - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Money borrowed - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of S&L - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- ___ shark - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Something borrowed - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Home buyer's need, usually - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Permission to use. - used 10 times, most recently in 1968
- Bank offer - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Student aid - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Usurer's offering - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Item of interest? - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Money to tide one over - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Shark's offer - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Bank or library offering - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Bank's offering - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- It may generate interest - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Mortgage - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Mortgage, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Shylock's offering - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Temporary use - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Help a hood - ABET, used 119 times
- Help in a heist - ABET, used 69 times
- Temporary calm - LULL, used 57 times
- Help a crook - ABET, used 50 times
- Help with a heist - ABET, used 50 times
- Without help - SOLO, used 49 times
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