Burst of thunder
The crossword clue "Burst of thunder" is answered by CLAP, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CLAP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLAP answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CLAP
Every other clue in this collection answered by CLAP, most used first.
- Applaud - used 310 times, most recently in 2026
- Thunder sound - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
- Sound of thunder - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Show approval - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Put your hands together - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Show appreciation - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Give a hand - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Give it up, so to speak - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- Show appreciation, in a way - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Thunderous sound - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Keep time, in a way - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Put one's hands together - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Express approval - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Give a round of applause - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Show approval, in a way - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Storm sound - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Bit of thunder - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Hand-to-hand contact - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Keep time manually - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Reward the cast - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Thunder unit - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- Thunder god - THOR, used 76 times
- Norse god of thunder - THOR, used 54 times
- God of thunder - THOR, used 52 times
- Norse thunder god - THOR, used 36 times
- Burst of wind - GUST, used 31 times
- Sound of thunder - PEAL, used 17 times
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