Indicates "yes"

The answer

NODS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NODS answer page.

Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NODS

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

• Silent assents - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Agrees silently - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Dozes (off) - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Dozes - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Affirmative actions - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Auction actions - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Auction signals - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Silent approvals - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Go-aheads - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Tacit approvals - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Drowses. - used 12 times, most recently in 1985
• Auction bids - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Drops off - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Indicates agreement - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Indicates assent - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Signs of approval - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Agrees quietly - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Silent bids - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Acceptances - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Assents silently - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Agrees nonverbally - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Endorsements - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Head-moving assents - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Signals agreement - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Silent signals - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Silent yeses - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Drifts (off) - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Nonverbal O.K.'s - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Signals approval - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Signals at Sotheby's - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Signals silently - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Silently agrees - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Subtle signals - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• "Yes ___?" - ORNO, used 64 times
• Yes votes - AYES, used 37 times
• "Yes, ___" - MAAM, used 35 times
• "Ah, yes" - ISEE, used 25 times
• Yes-__ question - ORNO, used 25 times
• "Yes!" - AMEN, used 16 times

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