Give a hand
The crossword clue "Give a hand" is answered by CLAP, a 4-letter entry. Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 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 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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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 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
- Burst of thunder - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- 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.
- Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
- Give up - CEDE, used 268 times
- Give a hoot - CARE, used 190 times
- Hand over - CEDE, used 187 times
- At hand - NEAR, used 139 times
- Give temporarily - LEND, used 136 times
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