Crossword clues - Answer
INS
INS is a 3-letter crossword answer with 18 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 1,013 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
INS
INS
3Letters
18Clues in collection
1,013Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for INS in this collection
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- ___ and outs - used 193 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Connections - used 172 times across 32 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Officeholders - used 101 times across 43 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Electees - used 64 times across 39 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Helpful connections - used 53 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Election winners - used 51 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Office holders - used 43 times across 35 distinct years, most recently in 2014
- Elected ones - used 39 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2013
- They hold power - used 39 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Social connections - used 37 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Powerful bunch - used 36 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Elected officials - used 30 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2019
- Those elected - used 30 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- Powerful people - used 29 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- November winners - used 25 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2018
- Useful connections - used 25 times across 8 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Helpful contacts - used 23 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Powers that be - used 23 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2017
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