Big deals

The answer

ADOS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADOS answer page.

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. 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.

• TODOS (4 uses in xd)
• GRANDOPENINGSALES (1 uses in xd)
• MERGERS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ADOS

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

• Commotions - used 201 times, most recently in 2026
• Fusses - used 175 times, most recently in 2026
• Big fusses - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
• Hubbubs - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• Brouhahas - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Kerfuffles - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Bustles - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
• Ruckuses - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Stirs - used 40 times, most recently in 2024
• Hullabaloos - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Big commotions - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Flaps - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Uproars - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• Foofaraws - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Flurries - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Hoo-has - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Troubles - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Bothers - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Tumults - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Big bothers - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Teapot tempests - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Chaotic happenings - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Commotions of Shakespearean proportions? - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Pothers - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Bustling commotions - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Public scenes - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Dustups - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Many are about nothing - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Minor flaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Rackets - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Rumpuses - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Scenes - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• Big rig - SEMI, used 251 times
• Big party - BASH, used 96 times
• Big gulp - SWIG, used 93 times
• "What's the big ___?" - IDEA, used 93 times
• Big bash - GALA, used 90 times
• Big book - TOME, used 85 times

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