Be in the hole

The answer

OWE

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

Used 29 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OWE

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

• Have debts - used 217 times, most recently in 2026
• Have bills - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
• Be in debt - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
• Be in the red - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
• Need to pay - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Be indebted to - used 81 times, most recently in 2025
• Be in arrears - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Be beholden to - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Be behind - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• "I ___ you one" - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Need to repay - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Have bills to pay - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Carry a balance - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Be shy - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Be in debt to - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Be short - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Have a tab - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• Part of IOU - used 32 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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