Common connectors

The answer

ANDS

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

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ANDS

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

• "No ifs, ___ or buts" - used 272 times, most recently in 2026
• Added stipulations - used 48 times, most recently in 2021
• Conjunctions. - used 32 times, most recently in 2017
• Common conjunctions - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Ampersands - used 24 times, most recently in 1993
• "No ifs, ___ ..." - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Connectives. - used 19 times, most recently in 1997
• Common connections - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• andandandand - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• Added conditions - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Afterthoughts - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Added details - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Additional stipulations - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Extra stipulations - used 7 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Common street name - MAIN, used 55 times
• Common French verb - ETRE, used 49 times
• Common Latin abbr. - ETAL, used 34 times
• Common contraction - ISNT, used 29 times
• Common metal - IRON, used 29 times
• Common rhyme scheme - ABAB, used 25 times

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