Joyce Carol Oates novel

The answer

THEM

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THEM answer page.

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for THEM

Every other clue in this collection answered by THEM, most used first.

• Not us - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Those people - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Those folks - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Pronoun. - used 29 times, most recently in 1998
• They/___ pronouns - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• "How do you like ___ apples?" - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• "Let ___ eat cake" - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• The enemy - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Those guys - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Oates novel - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
• The other team - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Gender-neutral pronoun - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• The other side - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• The others - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Unnamed ones - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• The other guys - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• They/___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• 1954 sci-fi classic - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Nonbinary pronoun - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Oates book - used 9 times, most recently in 1993
• Opponents of "us" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• That person - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• The bad guys - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Us vs. ___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "It's us against ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• The opposition - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• 1954 giant-ant movie - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• "There's gold in ___ thar hills!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Us opponent - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Yonder folks - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Melville novel - OMOO, used 226 times
• Austen novel - EMMA, used 143 times
• Christmas carol - NOEL, used 134 times
• Jane Austen novel - EMMA, used 119 times
• Zola novel - NANA, used 84 times
• Carol - NOEL, used 82 times

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