Surrender formally
The crossword clue "Surrender formally" is answered by CEDE, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CEDE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CEDE answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2015; 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 CEDE
Every other clue in this collection answered by CEDE, most used first.
- Give up - used 268 times, most recently in 2026
- Relinquish - used 212 times, most recently in 2026
- Hand over - used 187 times, most recently in 2026
- Yield - used 124 times, most recently in 2026
- Surrender - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn over - used 65 times, most recently in 2024
- Grant - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Sign over - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
- Give up, as territory - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Formally surrender - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Give over - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Relinquish legally - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Surrender, as territory - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Give up, as land - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Sign away - used 21 times, most recently in 2017
- Formally give up - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Formally hand over - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Give up, as rights - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Surrender possession - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Give up land - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Yield by treaty - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Give up rights to - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Transfer - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Yield, as property - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Give away - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Give in - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
- Hand over formally - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Admit. - used 8 times, most recently in 1967
- Formally relinquish - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Let go of - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Surrender, as land - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Formally transfer - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Give up claim to - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Give up formally - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Let go - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Formally turn over - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Hand over land - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Declare formally - AVOW, used 8 times
- About, formally speaking - INRE, used 7 times
- Eat formally. - DINE, used 7 times
- Didn't surrender - KEPT, used 6 times
- "Me neither," formally - NORI, used 6 times
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