It sells, it's said

The answer

SEX

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

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SEX

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

• Gender - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Census datum - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
• Driver's license datum - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Kinsey topic - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Questionnaire datum - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• ___ ed - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Scandal subject - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• Reason for an R rating - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ and the City" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Male or female - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Application datum - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Kinsey study - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of symbol - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Kinsey subject - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• The fair ___. - used 8 times, most recently in 1974
• Birth certificate datum - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Dr. Ruth's field - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Kinsey research topic - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Passport datum - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Driver's license info - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• It sells, they say - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• "On the Basis of ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Possible reason for an R rating - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second ___" - 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.

• "It's __-win situation!" - ANO, used 71 times
• Ewe said it - BAA, used 64 times
• "It's c-c-cold!" - BRR, used 60 times
• It's not free of charge - ION, used 48 times
• It's a blast - TNT, used 45 times
• "It's the end of an ___" - ERA, used 42 times

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