Use leverage

The answer

PRY

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

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PRY

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

• Snoop - used 141 times, most recently in 2026
• Be nosy - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a crowbar - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Be a snoop - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Ask too many questions - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Meddle - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Ask nosy questions - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Get nosy - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Jimmy - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
• Be a busybody - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Get too personal - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Crowbar - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Use a lever - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Ask too much - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Nose around - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Lever - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Be too nosy - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Act the snoop - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Be a Nosy Parker - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Be a buttinsky - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "I don't mean to ___ ..." - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Ask overpersonally - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Snoop around - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Use a shovel - DIG, used 98 times
• Use a straw - SIP, used 85 times
• Use a shuttle - TAT, used 53 times
• Use a chair - SIT, used 46 times
• Use needle and thread - SEW, used 40 times
• Use oars - ROW, used 38 times

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