__ upswing (rising)

The answer

ONAN

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

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ONAN

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

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• ___ empty stomach - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Judah's son - used 19 times, most recently in 2010
• "___ unrelated note..." - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Put ___ act - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
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• ___ upswing - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• ___ impulse - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Judah's second son - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• "Do not take ___ empty stomach" - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• ___ equal basis - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Second son of Judah - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• ___ epic scale - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Toward the rising sun - EAST, used 29 times
• "I ___ bad moon rising" - SEEA, used 9 times
• Upswing - RISE, used 9 times
• Economic upswing - BOOM, used 7 times

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