Can't live without

The answer

NEED

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

Used 35 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 12 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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• NEEDS (19 uses in xd)

Other clues for NEED

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

• Require - used 321 times, most recently in 2026
• Requirement - used 261 times, most recently in 2026
• Have to have - used 230 times, most recently in 2026
• Must have - used 172 times, most recently in 2026
• Call for - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
• Exigency - used 79 times, most recently in 2015
• Requisite - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• More than want - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Cry out for - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Penury - used 37 times, most recently in 2013
• Scholarship criterion - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Sine qua non - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ I say more?" - used 30 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.

• Without - SANS, used 275 times
• Without a date - STAG, used 88 times
• Without ice - NEAT, used 77 times
• "This can't be!" - OHNO, used 76 times
• "To Live and Die ___" - INLA, used 67 times
• Without: Fr. - SANS, used 67 times

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