Nothing but
The crossword clue "Nothing but" is answered by ONLY, a 4-letter entry. Used 59 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ONLY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONLY answer page.
Used 59 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ONLY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ONLY, most used first.
- Just - used 190 times, most recently in 2026
- Sole - used 154 times, most recently in 2026
- Exclusively - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Merely - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
- No more than - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Nothing more than - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Unique - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of child - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
- "For Your Eyes ___" - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Word of exclusivity - used 24 times, most recently in 2015
- One's partner - 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.
- Doing nothing - IDLE, used 237 times
- Nothing more than - MERE, used 159 times
- "Think nothing ___" - OFIT, used 62 times
- Nothing: Fr. - RIEN, used 59 times
- Nothing special - SOSO, used 53 times
- "___ but known..." - HADI, used 51 times
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