"The Way"
The crossword clue ""The Way"" is answered by TAO, a 3-letter entry. Used 24 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TAO
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAO answer page.
Used 24 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 14 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.
- TAOISM (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for TAO
Every other clue in this collection answered by TAO, most used first.
- Eastern "way" - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
- Chinese "way" - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Eastern path - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ Te Ching" - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Lao-tzu's "way" - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Confucian path - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Chinese philosophy - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Chinese principle - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- "The ___ of Pooh" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Confucian ideal - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Way of the East - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Eastern ideal - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Confucian principle - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
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 the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
- In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
- By way of - VIA, used 728 times
- Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
- "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
- To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
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