Muscle twitches
The crossword clue "Muscle twitches" is answered by TICS, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TICS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TICS answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for TICS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TICS, most used first.
- Twitches - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Nervous twitches - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Personal quirks - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Idiosyncrasies - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Quirks - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Muscle spasms - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Spasms - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Facial twitches - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
- Nervous spasms - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Quirky habits - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Involuntary movements - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Little jerks - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Behavioral quirks - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Tourette's symptoms - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Involuntary contractions - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Involuntary twitches - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Nervous contractions - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Muscle quality - TONE, used 139 times
- Shoulder muscle, for short - DELT, used 87 times
- Muscle soreness - ACHE, used 47 times
- Shoulder muscle, briefly - DELT, used 32 times
- Move a muscle - STIR, used 29 times
- Classic muscle cars - GTOS, used 22 times
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