Ancient greetings

The answer

AVES

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

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AVES

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

• Prayers. - used 33 times, most recently in 2000
• St. crossers - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• The birds. - used 26 times, most recently in 1999
• Birds' class - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Birds, to biologists - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Birds, to Brutus - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Rarae ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
• Bird class - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Salutations - used 10 times, most recently in 1983
• Birds: Lat. - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
• Roman greetings - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Rosary beads - used 8 times, most recently in 1992
• Sts. - used 8 times, most recently in 1996
• Broad sts. - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• City rtes. - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Forum farewells - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Park and Lex - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Rd. crossers - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Ancient Peruvian - INCA, used 202 times
• Ancient Andean - INCA, used 102 times
• Ancient Syria - ARAM, used 69 times
• Ancient mariner - NOAH, used 64 times
• Ancient Asian. - MEDE, used 57 times
• Ancient Persian - MEDE, used 57 times

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