Bench press muscle
The crossword clue "Bench press muscle" is answered by PEC, a 3-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PEC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PEC answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 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.
- PECTORAL (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for PEC
Every other clue in this collection answered by PEC, most used first.
- Chest muscle - used 125 times, most recently in 2026
- Chest muscle, for short - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Delt neighbor - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Chest muscle, briefly - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Bench press muscle, for short - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Upper-bod muscle - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Ab's neighbor - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Chest muscle, informally - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Push-up muscle, briefly - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Bench press target - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Ab neighbor - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Push-up muscle - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Bench press muscle, briefly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
- Back muscle, briefly - LAT, used 97 times
- Church bench - PEW, used 90 times
- Press for payment - DUN, used 68 times
- Press into service - USE, used 54 times
- Muscle spasm - TIC, used 48 times
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