Zip ___

The answer

CODE

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

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1970. 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

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• NIL (227 uses in xd)
• NADA (113 uses in xd)
• NONE (69 uses in xd)
• PEP (39 uses in xd)
• ELAN (31 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Set of standards - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• 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.

• "Zip-___-Doo-Dah" - ADEE, used 250 times
• Zip - NADA, used 113 times
• Zip - NONE, used 69 times
• Zip - ELAN, used 31 times
• Zip, to Zapata - NADA, used 27 times
• Zip - ZERO, used 16 times

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