"___ I say more?"

The answer

NEED

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

Used 30 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Can't live without - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Scholarship criterion - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Sine qua non - used 31 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.

• "Sad to say ..." - ALAS, used 250 times
• Nothing more than - MERE, used 159 times
• "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times
• Say it isn't so - DENY, used 113 times
• Say it's so - AVER, used 97 times
• "You can say that again!" - AMEN, used 93 times

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