Answer to an addition problem
The crossword clue "Answer to an addition problem" is answered by SUM, a 3-letter entry. Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SUM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SUM answer page.
Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SUM
Every other clue in this collection answered by SUM, most used first.
- Total - used 184 times, most recently in 2026
- Bottom line - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Aggregate - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Addition result - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Bottom-line figure - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Add up - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Dim ___ - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Addition total - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Bottom-line amount - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Totality - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Total amount - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Amount - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- "Cogito, ergo ___" - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Result of addition - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Grand total - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Entirety - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- It may be tidy - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Tally - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- ___ 41 - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Substance partner - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Whole - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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.
- In addition - TOO, used 154 times
- In addition - AND, used 93 times
- Building addition - ELL, used 81 times
- "I" problem - EGO, used 71 times
- Agreeable answer - YES, used 56 times
- Affirmative answer - YES, used 41 times
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