Kind of approval
The crossword clue "Kind of approval" is answered by FDA, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FDA
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FDA answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for FDA
Every other clue in this collection answered by FDA, most used first.
- Rx overseer - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
- Rx watchdog - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Medicine-approving org. - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Public health org. - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Pharm. watchdog - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- Govt. health watchdog - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Pharmaceutical watchdog org. - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Govt. Rx watchdog - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- HHS agency - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Cosmetics overseeing agcy. - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Drug-approving org. - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Medicine-testing org. - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Pharma watchdog - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Rx watchdog org. - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- They say "yes" to drugs - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- U.S. health watchdog - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Watchdog org. - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Kind - ILK, used 192 times
- "What Kind of Fool __?" - AMI, used 90 times
- Kind of trip - EGO, used 69 times
- Silent approval - NOD, used 60 times
- Kind of cross - TAU, used 51 times
- Kind of dye - AZO, used 42 times
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