Like some pickings
The crossword clue "Like some pickings" is answered by SLIM, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLIM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLIM answer page.
Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLIM
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLIM, most used first.
- Slender - used 150 times, most recently in 2026
- Svelte - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
- Meager - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
- Thin - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Willowy - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Skinny - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Narrow - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some chances - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Unlikely, as chances - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Unlikely - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
- Negligible - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Scanty - used 13 times, most recently in 2012
- Gracile - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Slight - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Like a long shot's chances - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Nickname for a thin man. - used 11 times, most recently in 1967
- Lanky - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Like long odds - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Actor Pickens - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Meager, as pickings - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Not very likely - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Unlikely, as odds - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- __ down; lose weight - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- ___ pickings - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Lose weight, with "down" - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Slight in structure - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Spare. - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- ___ to none (long odds) - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Like ___ of bricks - ATON, used 201 times
- Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
- Some - AFEW, used 116 times
- Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
- Like fine wine - AGED, used 99 times
- Sleep like ___ - ALOG, used 96 times
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