___ and outs
The crossword clue "___ and outs" is answered by INS, a 3-letter entry. Used 193 times across 36 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 36 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
INS
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INS answer page.
Used 193 times across 36 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 36 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for INS
Every other clue in this collection answered by INS, most used first.
- Connections - used 172 times, most recently in 2026
- Officeholders - used 101 times, most recently in 2025
- Electees - used 64 times, most recently in 2025
- Helpful connections - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Election winners - used 51 times, most recently in 2025
- Office holders - used 43 times, most recently in 2014
- Elected ones - used 39 times, most recently in 2013
- They hold power - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Social connections - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Powerful bunch - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Elected officials - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
- Those elected - used 30 times, most recently in 2021
- Powerful people - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- November winners - used 25 times, most recently in 2018
- Useful connections - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Helpful contacts - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Powers that be - used 23 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- To and ___ - FRO, used 341 times
- And so on: Abbr. - ETC, used 238 times
- Get-up-and-go - PEP, used 188 times
- Put two and two together - ADD, used 138 times
- Half and half - ONE, used 131 times
- Ages and ages - EON, used 127 times
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