"Beats me" gesture
The crossword clue ""Beats me" gesture" is answered by SHRUG, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SHRUG
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHRUG answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SHRUG
Every other clue in this collection answered by SHRUG, most used first.
- Show indifference - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Shoulder gesture - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- "I don't know" gesture - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Sign of indifference - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- "I dunno" gesture - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Gesture of indifference - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- "Beats me!" - DUNNO, used 51 times
- Barely beats - EDGES, used 26 times
- Winner's gesture - VSIGN, used 14 times
- Beats it - SCATS, used 11 times
- Just beats - EDGES, used 7 times
- Beats - TEMPI, used 6 times
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