Lice-to-be

The answer

NITS

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NITS

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

• Little lice - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Insect eggs - used 22 times, most recently in 2014
• Minor quibbles - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Minor criticisms - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Louse eggs - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Quibbles - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Lousy eggs? - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Small complaints - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• They may be picked - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Petty complaints - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Petty criticisms - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Picky people pick them - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Tiny complaints - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• What picky people pick - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Young lice - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Things to pick - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Tiny criticisms - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Immature parasites - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Trivial details - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• ___-do-well - NEER, used 511 times
• Zilch - NADA, used 352 times
• Require - NEED, used 321 times
• Tidy - NEAT, used 316 times
• Close by - NEAR, used 299 times
• ___ contendere - NOLO, used 293 times

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