By way of.
The crossword clue "By way of." is answered by THRU, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
THRU
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THRU answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 2 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.
- INCARE (4 uses in xd)
Other clues for THRU
Every other clue in this collection answered by THRU, most used first.
- Drive-___ window - used 142 times, most recently in 2026
- Drive-___ - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- "No ___ traffic" - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- By way of, briefly - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
- Traffic sign word - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
- By way of, informally - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Via, informally - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some traffic - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
- By way of, for short - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Via, briefly - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Via, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Done, for short - used 7 times, most recently in 1998
- Kind of traffic - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Road sign word - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Via - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Finished, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Like some streets - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Prefix for way - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
- Way off - AFAR, used 229 times
- Way out there - AFAR, used 104 times
- One way to run - AMOK, used 102 times
- "The Way We ___" - WERE, used 82 times
- Way of walking - GAIT, used 72 times
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