Year-end tunes

The answer

NOELS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOELS answer page.

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 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.

• CAROLS (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for NOELS

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

• Christmas carols - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Carols - used 52 times, most recently in 2022
• Seasonal songs - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Christmas songs - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• December songs - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• December airs - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Yuletide songs - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Carolers' songs - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Holiday numbers - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Yuletide tunes - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Coward et al. - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• December tunes - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Yule tunes - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Battery end - ANODE, used 109 times
• End of ___ - ANERA, used 68 times
• The end - OMEGA, used 55 times
• The end of ___ - ANERA, used 53 times
• So last year - PASSE, used 49 times
• Put an end to - CEASE, used 44 times

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