Draws closer
The crossword clue "Draws closer" is answered by NEARS, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NEARS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NEARS answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NEARS
Every other clue in this collection answered by NEARS, most used first.
- Approaches - used 329 times, most recently in 2026
- Gets closer to - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
- Closes in on - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Comes close - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
- Gets close to - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Comes closer - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Gets closer - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Gets warmer - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Draws nigh - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Approximates - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
- Converges on - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Verges on - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Draws close - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Moves toward - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Draws close to - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Gets close - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Comes close to - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Creeps up on - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Zeroes in on - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Impends - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Becomes imminent - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Gate closer - LATCH, used 15 times
- Closer to extinction - RARER, used 13 times
- Door closer - LATCH, used 8 times
- Draws in - LURES, used 8 times
- Envelope closer - CLASP, used 8 times
- Fairy tale closer - AFTER, used 7 times
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