Overly glib

The answer

PAT

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

Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PAT

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

• Bit of butter - used 124 times, most recently in 2026
• Light touch - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• One way to stand - used 64 times, most recently in 2023
• Butter serving - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
• Touch lightly - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
• Gentle touch - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Contrived - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Butter portion - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Butter square - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Butter unit - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Mrs. Nixon - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
• Butter bit - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Touch gently - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Opportune. - used 22 times, most recently in 2015
• Portion of butter - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ on the back - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Timely. - used 20 times, most recently in 1986
• Way to stand - used 19 times, most recently in 2014
• Soft touch - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Glib - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Frisk, with "down" - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Reassuring touch - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Square of butter - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Serving of butter - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Wheel of Fortune" host Sajak - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Encouraging touch - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Facile - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Karate Kid" actor Morita - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Vanna's cohort - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Like some answers - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Tap gently - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Affectionate touch - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Boone or Benatar - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Comforting touch - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• How some stand - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Perfectly - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• "The Prince of Tides" novelist Conroy - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Word before or after "down" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• A way to stand - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Light stroke - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Margarine serving - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Singer Benatar - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Stand ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ the Bunny" (touch-and-feel baby book) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Best way to get it down - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Butter measure - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Butter slice - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Excessively glib - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "Heartbreaker" singer Benatar - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Loving touch - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Memorized - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Mr. Sajak - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Trite - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• Overly - TOO, used 352 times
• Overly permissive - LAX, used 19 times

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