Deserve
The crossword clue "Deserve" is answered by MERIT, a 5-letter entry. Used 159 times across 48 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 34 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
MERIT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MERIT answer page.
Used 159 times across 48 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 34 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for MERIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by MERIT, most used first.
- Be worthy of - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Earn - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Reason for a raise - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Worth - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Excellence - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of badge - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
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