More than want

The answer

NEED

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

Used 41 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• CRAVE (5 uses in xd)
• DESIRE (1 uses in xd)
• LUSTAFTER (1 uses in xd)
• YEARN (1 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
• 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
• "___ 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.

• Nothing more than - MERE, used 159 times
• Larger-than-life - EPIC, used 101 times
• "___ want for Christmas..." - ALLI, used 92 times
• More than - OVER, used 86 times
• In ___ of (rather than) - LIEU, used 69 times
• "One more thing . . ." - ALSO, used 59 times

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