Affectionate embrace
The crossword clue "Affectionate embrace" is answered by HUG, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1985. 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
HUG
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HUG answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HUG
Every other clue in this collection answered by HUG, most used first.
- Embrace - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
- Warm embrace - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Warm greeting - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Show of affection - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Warm welcome - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Greet warmly - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Warm squeeze - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Affectionate greeting - used 6 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.
- Affectionate murmur - COO, used 9 times
- Affectionate touch - PAT, used 8 times
- Affectionate sound - COO, used 6 times
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