Carol opening

The answer

ADESTE

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADESTE answer page.

Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• OCOME (8 uses in xd)
• HARK (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ADESTE

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

• "___ Fideles" - used 176 times, most recently in 2026
• Carol starter - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Carol opener - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ Fidelis" - used 13 times, most recently in 2003
• Start of a carol - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• "__ Fideles": carol - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Latin carol starter - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Carol start - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Carol beginning - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• "__ Fideles": Christmas carol - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Opening word? - SESAME, used 37 times
• Broadway opening - ACTONE, used 27 times
• Chess opening - GAMBIT, used 10 times
• Theater opening - SCENEI, used 7 times
• Battlement opening - CRENEL, used 6 times
• Carol Burnett character - EUNICE, used 6 times

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