Loan-sharking
The crossword clue "Loan-sharking" is answered by USURY, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
USURY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the USURY answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Excessive interest - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Loan shark's interest - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Illegal lending practice - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- 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.
- Have a loan from - OWETO, used 32 times
- Approach for a loan - HITUP, used 7 times
- Make good on a loan - REPAY, used 7 times
- Ask for a loan - HITUP, used 6 times
- Make good on, as a loan - REPAY, used 6 times
- Settle, as a loan - REPAY, used 6 times
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