Approves, briefly
The crossword clue "Approves, briefly" is answered by OKS, a 3-letter entry. Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OKS
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OKS answer page.
Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OKS
Every other clue in this collection answered by OKS, most used first.
- Approves - used 227 times, most recently in 2026
- Green-lights - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
- Signs off on - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Gives the go-ahead - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Authorizes - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Gives the green light - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Approvals - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Rubber-stamps - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- Sanctions - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Gives a thumbs-up - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Endorses - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Greenlights - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Gives the thumbs-up - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Agrees to - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Gives the go-ahead to - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Gives the nod - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Gives the green light to - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Gives the nod to - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Gives approval to - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Says yes to - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Approves of - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Go-aheads - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Gives a thumbs-up to - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Gives the go-ahead, briefly - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Gives approval for - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Approves: Colloq. - used 10 times, most recently in 1968
- Blesses - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Accepts - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Thumbs-ups - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Allows - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Allows to proceed - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Initials, perhaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Stamps of approval - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Initials - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Permits - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Up to, briefly - TIL, used 117 times
- Back muscle, briefly - LAT, used 97 times
- However, briefly - THO, used 88 times
- "Today" rival, briefly - GMA, used 75 times
- Camera type, briefly - SLR, used 68 times
- Aliens, briefly - ETS, used 52 times
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