__ in the neck (pest)
The crossword clue "__ in the neck (pest)" is answered by PAIN, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
PAIN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PAIN answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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