Keeps close to.
The crossword clue "Keeps close to." is answered by HUGS, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HUGS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HUGS answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HUGS
Every other clue in this collection answered by HUGS, most used first.
- Embraces - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Affectionate embraces - 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.
- Close by - NEAR, used 299 times
- Close - NEAR, used 263 times
- Close - SHUT, used 154 times
- "That was close!" - PHEW, used 117 times
- Comes to a close - ENDS, used 97 times
- Close to - NEAR, used 89 times
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