Authoritative decree
The crossword clue "Authoritative decree" is answered by EDICT, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EDICT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDICT answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for EDICT
Every other clue in this collection answered by EDICT, most used first.
- Decree - used 141 times, most recently in 2026
- Proclamation - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Royal decree - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Fiat - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Official order - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Formal decree - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Official decree - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Order - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Official proclamation - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Pronouncement - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Royal proclamation - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- King's proclamation - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- Formal proclamation - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Order from on high - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Royal order - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Ukase - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Authoritative proclamation - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Papal proclamation - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Mandate - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Command. - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- ___ of Nantes, 1598 - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Ordinance. - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- King's decree - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- __ of Nantes - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Papal bull, e.g. - 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.
- Court decree - ARRET, used 31 times
- Turkish decree. - IRADE, used 29 times
- Islamic decree - FATWA, used 28 times
- Decree. - ENACT, used 27 times
- Decree - UKASE, used 25 times
- Sultan's decree. - IRADE, used 25 times
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