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The answer

PAR

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• NORM (19 uses in xd)
• USUAL (3 uses in xd)

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
• It's better broken - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• 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
• ___ 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

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.

• Expected - DUE, used 196 times
• What's more - AND, used 116 times
• "What's up, ___?" - DOC, used 84 times
• "What's the ___?" - DIF, used 77 times
• "What's the ___?" - USE, used 61 times
• What's up? - SKY, used 50 times

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