Wood for archery bows

The answer

YEW

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YEW answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for YEW

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

• Evergreen tree - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Evergreen - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
• Bow wood - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Evergreen type - used 37 times, most recently in 2023
• Archery bow wood - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Longbow wood - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Archery wood - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Fine-grained wood - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Poisonous evergreen - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Tree that sounds like a pronoun - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Evergreen shrub - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Flexible wood - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Archer's wood - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Tree. - used 10 times, most recently in 1973
• Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Certain evergreen - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Tree that sounds like "you" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025

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• Bat wood - ASH, used 227 times
• "For shame!" - TSK, used 208 times
• Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
• Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times
• "For __ a jolly good fellow..." - HES, used 155 times

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