Barely ahead
The crossword clue "Barely ahead" is answered by UPONE, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
UPONE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UPONE answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for UPONE
Every other clue in this collection answered by UPONE, most used first.
- Slightly ahead - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Ahead by a point - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Barely winning - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Barely leading - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Ahead of time - EARLY, used 50 times
- Barely sufficient - SCANT, used 50 times
- Ahead of schedule - EARLY, used 43 times
- Barely defeated - EDGED, used 35 times
- Barely enough - SCANT, used 35 times
- Barely beat - EDGED, used 29 times
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