Final words?
The crossword clue "Final words?" is answered by OBIT, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OBIT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OBIT answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 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.
- SAYSOS (5 uses in xd)
Other clues for OBIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by OBIT, most used first.
- Final notice - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
- Newspaper notice - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Passing notice - used 37 times, most recently in 2022
- Last write-up - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Last writes? - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
- News item - used 26 times, most recently in 2004
- "In memoriam" bio - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Last words? - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- R.I.P. notice - used 18 times, most recently in 2016
- Final bio - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Life story - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Newspaper item - used 16 times, most recently in 2003
- Posthumous bio - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Life lines? - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Departure notice? - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Death notice - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- "In memoriam" item - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Parting words? - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Death notice, for short - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Memorial bio - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Passing mention? - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- "In memoriam" piece - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Newspaper notice, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Postmortem bio - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Notice in passing? - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- A few last words - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Brief notice in passing - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Last bio - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Memorial column - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Memorial news item - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Notice of departure? - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Sad news item - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Somber bio - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Story of a lifetime? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Death notice, briefly - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Funeral info - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Item of finality in the paper - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Passing words? - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Sad notice - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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- Analogy words - ISTO, used 134 times
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- Not __ many words - INSO, used 86 times
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