Keep time, in a way
The crossword clue "Keep time, in a way" is answered by CLAP, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
CLAP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLAP answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 7 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 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
- 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.
- At any time - EVER, used 696 times
- A single time - ONCE, used 296 times
- Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
- "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
- Way off - AFAR, used 229 times
- A long time - AGES, used 156 times
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