Start of an apology

The answer

MEA

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

Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MEA

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

• ___ culpa - used 533 times, most recently in 2026
• "Give ___ break!" - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cry __ River" - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• "Do ___ favor" - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• "Tell __ story" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Are you calling ___ liar?" - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
• Apology opener - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Apology starter - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Confession starter - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• "Drop ___ line" - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• "Give ___ break" (2 wds.) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "Lend ___ Tenor" - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• "Oh, give ___ home ..." - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• "Peel ___ grape" - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• "Call ___ cab!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• "Give ___ minute!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Latin pronoun - used 6 times, most recently in 2011

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.

• Count start - ONE, used 109 times
• Ab ___ (from the start) - OVO, used 63 times
• Carte start - ALA, used 52 times
• Start of MGM's motto - ARS, used 48 times
• Lord's Prayer start - OUR, used 40 times
• MGM motto start - ARS, used 40 times

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