It's better broken

The answer

PAR

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

Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PAR

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

• Standard - used 150 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf goal - used 117 times, most recently in 2026
• Golfer's goal - used 90 times, most recently in 2025
• Hole number - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ for the course - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf standard - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Average - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf course standard - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Something to shoot for - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Course number - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Golf term - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
• Links standard - used 34 times, most recently in 2022
• Golf score - used 29 times, most recently in 2015
• Bogey beater - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Duffer's goal - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Course standard - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Norm - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Standard golf score - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Equality - used 20 times, most recently in 2012
• ___ excellence - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf norm - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Golfer's standard - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Round number? - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Course goal - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Hole goal - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
• Nice round number? - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Golf scorecard number - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Birdie plus one - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Golfing standard - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• 72, at Augusta National - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Links number - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Equal footing - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• __ for the course; normal - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• It's for the course - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• Course average - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Disc golf standard - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Golf average - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf hole number - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Links goal - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Normal - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• 72, at Augusta - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Birdie beater - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Equality of status - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• __ for the course (about average) - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Golf target - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• The usual - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Duffer's dream - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Links score - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Standard score in golf - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Stock figure - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Target score in "Mario Golf" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Target score on a golf course - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• What's expected - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• ___ avion - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Bogey minus one - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Eagle plus two - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Golf course number - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Golfing goal - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Good thing to break - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Good thing to shoot - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Up to ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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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.

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• "I've seen better" - MEH, used 45 times
• It's a blast - TNT, used 45 times
• "It's the end of an ___" - ERA, used 42 times

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