Brief reply?

The answer

ANS

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANS answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ANS

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

• Ques. response - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of Q&A - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Reply to a ques. - used 25 times, most recently in 2022
• Response to a ques. - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Ques. counterpart - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• T or F, e.g. - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Years, to Yves - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• FAQ response - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Part of Q and A - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Opposite of a ques. - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Short reply? - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Part of Q&A, briefly - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• T or F - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• T or F, perhaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Sol. - used 6 times, most recently in 2010

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.

• Brief moment - SEC, used 79 times
• Brief time - SEC, used 54 times
• Brief drop - DIP, used 33 times
• Brief swim - DIP, used 26 times
• Agreeable reply - YES, used 21 times
• Belief, in brief - ISM, used 20 times

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