The enemy

The answer

THEM

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

Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 12 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.

• FOES (4 uses in xd)
• AGGRESSORNATION (1 uses in xd)
• AXIS (1 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Joyce Carol Oates novel - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• 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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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