Barely usable pencils Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Barely usable pencils featured in LA Times Daily puzzle on December 27, 2025. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 4 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is NUBS.

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% NUBS Barely usable pencils (4) LA Times Daily Dec 27, 2025
47% NUB Barely usable pencil (3)
3% NAKED Bare (5) LA Times Daily Nov 28, 2025
2% TRACE Barely detectable amount (5) USA Today Dec 26, 2025
2% EKE Barely make, with "out" (3)
2% UNCOVERED Bare (9) (9) Puzzler Dec 23, 2025
2% AXE Demands of Treasury barely fell (3) The Times Cryptic Dec 22, 2025
2% TIMBERLINE "Pencils down!," for one? (10) LA Times Daily Dec 19, 2025
2% EKED ___ out (barely got) (4) USA Today Dec 17, 2025
2% EDGED Barely beat out (5) Wall Street Journal Dec 13, 2025

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