Secret messages
The crossword clue "Secret messages" is answered by CODES, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1955. 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
CODES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CODES answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CODES
Every other clue in this collection answered by CODES, most used first.
- Secret writings - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Does some programming - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Things to crack - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Encryptions - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ciphers - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Programs - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- They may be cracked - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Secret supply - STASH, used 132 times
- Secret meeting - TRYST, used 93 times
- Some messages - EMAIL, used 54 times
- Secret agents - SPIES, used 50 times
- Secret rendezvous - TRYST, used 50 times
- Wed in secret - ELOPE, used 41 times
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