__ up; busy
The crossword clue "__ up; busy" is answered by TIED, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1986. 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
TIED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TIED answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TIED
Every other clue in this collection answered by TIED, most used first.
- Even - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Bound - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Headed for overtime - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Neck and neck - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Knotted - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Deadlocked - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Even, as a score - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Even-steven - used 22 times, most recently in 2017
- All even - used 20 times, most recently in 2015
- Knotted up - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Fit to be ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Fastened. - used 12 times, most recently in 2005
- Evened the score - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- In a dead heat - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Even, scorewise - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Going into overtime - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Neither winning nor losing - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Not winning or losing - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Made a knot - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Having no loose ends? - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Laced up - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Needing an extra quarter, perhaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Without a leader - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Busy as ___ - ABEE, used 201 times
- Not busy - IDLE, used 132 times
- Busy place - HIVE, used 67 times
- Busy - ATIT, used 41 times
- Not busy - FREE, used 21 times
- Not busy - SLOW, used 20 times
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