"Close one!"
The crossword clue ""Close one!"" is answered by PHEW, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PHEW
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PHEW answer page.
Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. 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
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Other clues for PHEW
Every other clue in this collection answered by PHEW, most used first.
- "That was close!" - used 117 times, most recently in 2026
- "What a relief!" - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- "That was a close one!" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Sound of relief - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- "Am I glad that's over!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Sigh of relief - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- "Close call!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Cry of relief - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Exclamation of relief - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- "I'm glad that's over!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Expression of relief - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- "That's a relief!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Narrow escape exclamation - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Close by - NEAR, used 299 times
- Close - NEAR, used 263 times
- One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
- Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
- From square one - ANEW, used 181 times
- Close - SHUT, used 154 times
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