"-- been real!"

The answer

ITS

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

Used 59 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ITS

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

• Part of TGIF - used 200 times, most recently in 2026
• Pronoun. - used 100 times, most recently in 1986
• "-- a deal!" - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ a Wonderful Life" - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ now or never!" - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ about time!" - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Possessive pronoun - used 67 times, most recently in 2021
• "Monty Python" opener - used 54 times, most recently in 2015
• TGIF part - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• For what __ worth - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Part of FWIW - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ alive!" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of T.G.I.F. - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
• "__ a Small World" - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
• FWIW part - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ a girl!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
• "___ complicated" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ My Party" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "-- your loss!" - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• "-- Impossible" - used 27 times, most recently in 2015
• "___ showtime!" - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ in the bag!" - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
• That thing's - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ Howdy Doody time!" - used 24 times, most recently in 2014
• "___ a boy!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ Always Sunny in Philadelphia" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ all good" - used 22 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.

• "___ been had!" - IVE, used 90 times
• "___ you for real?" - ARE, used 76 times
• Had been - WAS, used 54 times
• "___ been thinking ..." - IVE, used 45 times
• "I've been ___!" - HAD, used 24 times
• Has been - WAS, used 23 times

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