Barely ahead
The crossword clue "Barely ahead" is answered by ONEUP, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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ONEUP
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONEUP answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ONEUP
Every other clue in this collection answered by ONEUP, most used first.
- Outdo - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Get the better of - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Do better than - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Best - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Top - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Slightly ahead - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Ahead by a point - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Leading by a point - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Outperform - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Surpass - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Do a bit better than - used 7 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.
- Ahead of time - EARLY, used 50 times
- Barely sufficient - SCANT, used 50 times
- Ahead of schedule - EARLY, used 43 times
- Barely defeated - EDGED, used 35 times
- Barely enough - SCANT, used 35 times
- Barely beat - EDGED, used 29 times
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