___ shoestring.

The answer

ONA

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONA answer page.

Used 64 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 10 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.

• LACE (93 uses in xd)
• LACET (4 uses in xd)
• LACER (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ONA

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

• Stop -- dime - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cat __ Hot Tin Roof" - used 75 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ Clear Day" - used 73 times, most recently in 2025
• Three ___ match - used 65 times, most recently in 2024
• ___ whim - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Out ___ limb - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
• "Put __ Happy Face" - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ roll - used 49 times, most recently in 2022
• -- budget - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• "Not -- dare!" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "Not ___ bet!" - used 28 times, most recently in 2021
• ___ mission - used 22 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Alley ___ - OOP, used 518 times
• Eggs - OVA, used 505 times
• Sphere - ORB, used 498 times
• Poem of praise - ODE, used 492 times
• Choose - OPT, used 490 times
• Make a choice - OPT, used 399 times

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