Warm greeting
The crossword clue "Warm greeting" is answered by HUG, a 3-letter entry. Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 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 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- 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
- Affectionate embrace - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Warm squeeze - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Affectionate greeting - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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