Excessive interest
The crossword clue "Excessive interest" is answered by USURY, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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USURY
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Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for USURY
Every other clue in this collection answered by USURY, most used first.
- Loan shark's crime - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Loan shark's practice - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Exorbitant interest - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Loan shark's offense - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Loan shark's interest - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Illegal lending practice - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Loan-sharking - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- There's a lot of interest in it - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Exorbitant interest rate - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Shylock's practice - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Excessive - UNDUE, used 133 times
- Excessive enthusiasm - MANIA, used 54 times
- Showed sudden interest - SATUP, used 27 times
- Arouse, as interest - PIQUE, used 26 times
- Showed interest - SATUP, used 19 times
- Excessive - ULTRA, used 15 times
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