It may be pending
The crossword clue "It may be pending" is answered by PATENT, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
PATENT
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PATENT answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PATENT
Every other clue in this collection answered by PATENT, most used first.
- Obvious - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
- Inventor's protection - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Inventor's document - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Gizmo protector - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Inventor's paper - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Invention protection - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Inventor's goal - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Inventor's quest - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Manifest. - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Be that as it may - EVENSO, used 30 times
- Author Louisa May __ - ALCOTT, used 18 times
- "Be that as it may ..." - ANYHOW, used 18 times
- __ May Alcott - LOUISA, used 16 times
- May or Stritch - ELAINE, used 16 times
- It may be hidden - AGENDA, used 15 times
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