Very expensive
The crossword clue "Very expensive" is answered by STEEP, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STEEP
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STEEP answer page.
Used 21 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 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.
- BIGTICKET (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for STEEP
Every other clue in this collection answered by STEEP, most used first.
- Precipitous - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Pricey - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Exorbitant - used 67 times, most recently in 2025
- Expensive - used 51 times, most recently in 2025
- Hard to climb - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Sharply inclined - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Prepare, as tea - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Tough to climb - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Costly - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- High-priced - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Brew - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Brew, as tea - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Soak - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Highly inclined - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Saturate. - used 12 times, most recently in 2002
- Sharply sloped - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Having a sharp incline - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Highly sloped - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Like cliffs - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- At quite an incline - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Difficult to climb - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Quite expensive - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Brew in a teapot - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Awfully expensive - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Declivitous - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Like a cliff - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Prepare tea - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
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.
- Very pale - ASHEN, used 69 times
- Very small - TEENY, used 68 times
- Very angry - IRATE, used 64 times
- Make very happy - ELATE, used 56 times
- Very, in music - ASSAI, used 52 times
- Very cold - GELID, used 41 times
Search the clue collection
Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.