___-do-well (good-for-nothing)
The crossword clue "___-do-well (good-for-nothing)" is answered by NEER, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NEER
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NEER answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NEER
Every other clue in this collection answered by NEER, most used first.
- ___-do-well - used 511 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic contraction. - used 70 times, most recently in 2025
- Not e'en once - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
- "... ___ the twain shall meet" - used 31 times, most recently in 2022
- At no time, poetically - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- "... and ___ the twain shall meet" - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
- Poetic adverb - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of alway - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Not once, poetically - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- At no time, in verse - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- At no time, to poets - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Poetic negative - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- At no time, in poetry - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Start to do well? - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Do-well intro - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Alway's opposite - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Poetic word - used 7 times, most recently in 1976
- "What, will these hands ___ be clean?": Lady Macbeth - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- At no time, to Tennyson - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Beginning to do-well? - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Not even once, poetically - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
- As well - ALSO, used 343 times
- Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
- "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
- Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
- Doing nothing - IDLE, used 237 times
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