"What ___ you thinking?"

The answer

WERE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WERE answer page.

Used 22 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 12 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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• ARE (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for WERE

Every other clue in this collection answered by WERE, most used first.

• Used to be - used 162 times, most recently in 2026
• Existed - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Way We ___" - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• "Wish you __ here" - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• "As you ___" - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
• "__ Off to See the Wizard" - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "Those ___ the Days" - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ #1!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• "Hey, you!" - PSST, used 325 times
• "You said it!" - AMEN, used 257 times
• "What ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 224 times
• "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
• "Would ___ to you?" - ILIE, used 135 times
• "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times

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