Possible reason for an R rating

The answer

SEX

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 3 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.

• GORE (3 uses in xd)

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
• It sells, it's said - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• 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
• 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.

• For each - PER, used 391 times
• "For shame!" - TSK, used 208 times
• Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
• Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times
• "For __ a jolly good fellow..." - HES, used 155 times
• Life story, for short - BIO, used 140 times

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