"What's the ___?" Crossword Clue

We have the 3-letter answer for "What's the ___?" crossword clue, last seen in the Universal Crossword August 13, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

"What's the ___?" Crossword Answer

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USE

(3 letters)

VERDICT

(7 letters)

DEALIO

(6 letters)

PLAN

(4 letters)

HAP

(3 letters)

CATCH

(5 letters)

HARM

(4 letters)

MATTER

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definitions

TWENTY-FIRST (adjective)
1. coming next after the twentieth in position
SEQUESTERED (adjective)
1. providing privacy or seclusion
2. kept separate and secluded

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

USE
(3 letters)
VERDICT
(7 letters)
DEALIO
(6 letters)
PLAN
(4 letters)
HAP
(3 letters)
CATCH
(5 letters)
HARM
(4 letters)
MATTER
(6 letters)

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
FID

More Universal Crossword (8/13/2025) Answers

Across

1. Uses a sun bed

5. Like cool cats

8. Crafts partner

12. Nylons

13. Name hidden in "espresso martini"

15. Source of fleece

16. Like poor soil

18. Miss Longstocking

19. Last night (In this answer, note the last four letters + ...)

21. Stimpy's pal (... the first two letters of this answer)

22. Singer DiFranco

23. Young mares

28. Periods of history or Taylor Swift's career

31. Reunion attendee, informally

32. Relative by marriage (Last two letters + ...)

34. Like a 1:1 model (... first three letters)

38. Picket line crosser

39. Batting practice areas

40. Tech review site whose first letter stands for "computer"

41. Twin-hulled boat (Last three letters + ...)

43. Fall juice (... first three letters)

44. Sporty car roof

45. Poison ivy woe

47. Dir. from Calgary to Denver

48. Took the wheel

51. Actress ___ Zadora

53. Combat

54. AMC show whose protagonist was Walter White, and a theme hint

60. Suspect's excuse

62. It can be in bars or chips

63. Dug for ore, say

64. Curly cabbage

65. 'My treat!'

66. Sheet in a book

67. Undergrad English degrees

68. Direction from Saskatchewan to Alberta

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Down

1. ___ Mints (Girl Scout cookies)

2. Top-rated

3. [Warning: Explicit content!]

4. Ciao!

5. Blowhard's output

6. Middle Eastern leader

7. Friends

8. Sushi tuna

9. Rebukes

10. Wigwam relative

11. Twirls

14. Coral colony

15. They're cast in "Lord of the Rings" movies

17. Continue, as a subscription

20. Lab tubes

24. Susan of "All My Children"

25. Frisbee shape

26. Machu Picchu builder

27. Full of compliments

29. In the distance

30. Glucose, for one

33. Subside

35. Singer Horne

36. Certain jeans

37. Raison d'___

39. Bit of high jinks

42. Grim-minded

43. Slacks material

46. Cinnamon and nutmeg

48. Okefenokee, e.g.

49. Shire of Rocky

50. Set of cards

52. Radiant

55. Fictional captain with a peg leg

56. Soft drink nut

57. Scourge

58. Cash dispensers

59. Bug spray ingredient

61. Buzzer in a bonnet

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