"Holy cow!"
The crossword clue ""Holy cow!"" is answered by YIKES, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YIKES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YIKES answer page.
Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for YIKES
Every other clue in this collection answered by YIKES, most used first.
- "Omigosh!" - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- "Uh-oh!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- "Oh no!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- "Gadzooks!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Startled cry - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- "Jeepers!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Cow catcher - LASSO, used 56 times
- Commercial cow - ELSIE, used 54 times
- Have a cow - CALVE, used 44 times
- Four Holy Roman emperors - OTTOS, used 34 times
- Make holy - BLESS, used 29 times
- Borden cow - ELSIE, used 26 times
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