Set of standards

The answer

CODE

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CODE

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

• Secret writing - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Programmer's output - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Morse __ - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Secret language - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Secret message - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Da Vinci --" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• App makeup - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Set of rules - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• System of rules - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Area __ - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Body of laws - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Word with area or zip - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Cipher - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Zip ___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Do some programming - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Programmer's creation - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Body of law - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Morse's creation - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• UPC part - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

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• Set down - LAID, used 46 times
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• Set down - ALIT, used 28 times
• Gym set - REPS, used 27 times
• Set eyes on - SPOT, used 24 times

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