"First of all ..."

The answer

ONE

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

Used 34 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 8 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.

• ADAM (65 uses in xd)
• FORSTARTERS (3 uses in xd)
• TOSTART (3 uses in xd)
• OPENER (2 uses in xd)
• FOROPENERS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ONE

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

• United - used 202 times, most recently in 2026
• Single - used 200 times, most recently in 2026
• Small bill - used 170 times, most recently in 2026
• Inseparable - used 161 times, most recently in 2026
• Half and half - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Individual - used 130 times, most recently in 2026
• Low digit - used 125 times, most recently in 2026
• Undivided - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
• Count start - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Indivisible - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
• Pronoun. - used 95 times, most recently in 1984
• Dollar bill - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Binary digit - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Unified - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Early afternoon - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• "The loneliest number" - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Afternoon hour - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
• "A Chorus Line" song - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
• Early hour - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Washington's bill - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Singleton - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Wallet bill - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Unit - used 40 times, most recently in 2004
• Early afternoon hour - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Hydrogen's atomic number - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Start of a count - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Washington bill - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• "A Chorus Line" number - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• Low number - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• Number. - used 31 times, most recently in 1977
• Four quarters - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Gender-neutral pronoun - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ of a kind - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• A quarter of four - used 29 times, most recently in 2020
• "___ for the money" - used 29 times, most recently in 2016
• "We're number ___!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Wee hour - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• A person - used 27 times, most recently in 2021
• 1300 hours - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Till bill - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
• Free throw score - used 25 times, most recently in 2017
• Hydrogen's number - used 25 times, most recently in 2012
• Count starter - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ in a million - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• It's next to nothing - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Quarter of four - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Small number - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Latish lunchtime - used 22 times, most recently in 2018
• Only partner - used 22 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• First lady - EVE, used 190 times
• Went first - LED, used 125 times
• "That's all ___ wrote" - SHE, used 95 times
• Nothing at all - NIL, used 79 times
• "All bets ___ off" - ARE, used 75 times
• All the rage - HOT, used 69 times

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