Optimist's credo
The crossword clue "Optimist's credo" is answered by ICAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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
ICAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ICAN answer page.
Used 21 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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 ICAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by ICAN, most used first.
- Volunteer's words - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Words of confidence - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- "__ hardly wait!" - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Volunteer's offer - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- "Not if ___ help it!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Confident words - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Optimist's words - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Volunteer's phrase - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- "__ See Clearly Now" - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Confident assertion - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- "Leave it to me" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- "Allow me" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- "___ hardly wait!" (2 wds.) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Yes __" - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Confident comment - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Optimist's assertion - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Volunteer's response - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Words from a volunteer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Like an optimist's outlook - ROSY, used 11 times
- Optimist's feeling - HOPE, used 7 times
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