Brief sleeps
The crossword clue "Brief sleeps" is answered by NAPS, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. 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
NAPS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NAPS answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NAPS
Every other clue in this collection answered by NAPS, most used first.
- Siestas - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Snoozes - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Short snoozes - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Catches some z's - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Dozes - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Short sleeps - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Is off guard - used 12 times, most recently in 2009
- Piles - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
- Day breaks - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Short rests - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Afternoon breaks - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Afternoon snoozes - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Catches forty winks - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Drops off - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Takes a siesta - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Drifts off - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Kindergarten breaks - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Quick snoozes - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Rests - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Takes a snooze - 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.
- Brief moments - SECS, used 54 times
- Brief letter - NOTE, used 29 times
- Rudely brief - CURT, used 28 times
- And others, in brief - ETAL, used 22 times
- Brief quarrel - SPAT, used 17 times
- Brief note - MEMO, used 16 times
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