"That smarts!"
The crossword clue ""That smarts!"" is answered by YOW, a 3-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YOW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YOW answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for YOW
Every other clue in this collection answered by YOW, most used first.
- "That hurts!" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- "Ouch!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Cry of pain - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Pained cry - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "That hurt!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
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- That girl - HER, used 229 times
- That woman - SHE, used 222 times
- That woman - HER, used 199 times
- That guy - HIM, used 189 times
- That lady - SHE, used 149 times
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