Many are about nothing

The answer

ADOS

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Big deals - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• 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
• 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.

• Doing nothing - IDLE, used 237 times
• ___ about - ONOR, used 191 times
• About - INRE, used 176 times
• Not many - AFEW, used 167 times
• ___ about (approximately) - ONOR, used 163 times
• Nothing more than - MERE, used 159 times

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