Nearby things

The answer

THESE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THESE answer page.

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for THESE

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

• The ones here - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• "We hold ___ truths ..." - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
• "-- Foolish Things" - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Not those - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• This and this - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• "One of ___ days ..." - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "We hold ___ truths to be self-evident" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• The ones right here - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• What we have here - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• "Kids ___ days ..." - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• The things here - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Pronoun. - used 14 times, most recently in 1977
• "___ are the times . . . " - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• The ones over here - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• This and that - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• The ones close by - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• This, this and this - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Foolish Things . . . ": 1935 song - used 9 times, most recently in 1992
• One of __ days (eventually) - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• "We hold __ truths to be..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• What's here - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Ones at hand - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• The Guess Who's "__ Eyes" - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• "___ Boots Are Made for Walkin'" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "Lord, what fools ___ mortals be!" - used 6 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.

• Nearby - CLOSE, used 57 times
• Things - ITEMS, used 53 times
• Square things - ATONE, used 47 times
• Signs of things to come - OMENS, used 46 times
• Saw things? - TEETH, used 42 times
• Make things right - ATONE, used 36 times

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