40 winks

The answer

NAP

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NAP answer page.

Used 30 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• CATNAP (9 uses in xd)
• SIESTA (1 uses in xd)
• SLEEP (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NAP

Every other clue in this collection answered by NAP, most used first.

• Snooze - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
• Siesta - used 183 times, most recently in 2026
• Forty winks - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
• Short snooze - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
• Catch some z's - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Quick snooze - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Short sleep - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Day break? - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Doze - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Pile - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Afternoon break - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Afternoon snooze - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Carpet feature - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Time out? - used 24 times, most recently in 2025

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• Zero - NIL, used 399 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• Teachers' org. - NEA, used 369 times
• Neither's partner - NOR, used 359 times
• Zilch - NIL, used 358 times

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