Like the boonies
The crossword clue "Like the boonies" is answered by RURAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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
RURAL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RURAL answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- BACKWOODS (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for RURAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by RURAL, most used first.
- Bucolic - used 91 times, most recently in 2024
- Countrified - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Not urban - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- From the country - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Pastoral - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Out in the sticks - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Rustic - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Country - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Of farm life - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of R.F.D. - used 17 times, most recently in 1999
- Of the countryside - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Opposite of urban - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Out in the country - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of RFD - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Back-country - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
- In the country - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Beyond the suburbs - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Urban's opposite - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Like Mayberry - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Far from the city - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- From farm country - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- RFD part - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Backwoods - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- In the boonies - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Like farm country - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Like the boondocks - 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.
- In the know - AWARE, used 356 times
- To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
- In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
- Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times
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