"Hold on a ___!"
The crossword clue ""Hold on a ___!"" is answered by SEC, a 3-letter entry. Used 72 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 20 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
SEC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEC answer page.
Used 72 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 20 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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