Salutation starter
The crossword clue "Salutation starter" is answered by DEAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEAR answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DEAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEAR, most used first.
- Letter opener - used 150 times, most recently in 2026
- Beloved - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
- Cherished - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- Precious - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Expensive - used 70 times, most recently in 2024
- Letter starter - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Darling - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Sweetie - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Costly - used 29 times, most recently in 2019
- Sweetheart - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Honey - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- "__ Sir or Madam . . ." - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Treasured - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Honeybunch - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Pricey - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Much-loved - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- First word of a letter - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ Abby" - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Sweetums - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Highly valued - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Term of affection - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- High-priced - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Snookums - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Start of many letters - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Esteemed. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
- Highly prized - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- "___ me!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Very expensive - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Close to one's heart - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- "__ Diary ... " - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Start of a letter - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Steep - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
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