Quote as a reference

The answer

CITE

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

Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CITE

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

• Refer to - used 179 times, most recently in 2026
• Quote - used 153 times, most recently in 2026
• Mention - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Give as an example - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Reference - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Quote as a source - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Allude to - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
• Give a ticket to - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Commend - used 24 times, most recently in 2021
• Adduce. - used 20 times, most recently in 1988
• Summon. - used 20 times, most recently in 1980
• Summon to court - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
• Make mention of - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Give credit to - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Quote as an authority - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Ticket - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Name - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Name as a source - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Make reference to - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Mention as a source - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Mention in a footnote - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Quote from - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Give a traffic ticket to - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Use as a reference - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Commend, as for bravery - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Give a ticket - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Refer to, as a source - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Give as a reference - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Offer as proof - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Use as a source - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Honorably mention - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Issue a ticket to - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Mention as a reference - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Refer to, as a research paper - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Write up, as a speeder - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Bookie's quote - ODDS, used 32 times
• Quote-book abbr. - ANON, used 28 times
• "___ quote ..." - ANDI, used 16 times
• Insurance quote - RATE, used 9 times
• Start of a Caesar quote - VENI, used 9 times
• Descartes quote word - ERGO, used 8 times

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