Gives approval for
The crossword clue "Gives approval for" is answered by OKS, a 3-letter entry. Used 11 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. 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 11 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 5 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.
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, briefly - used 15 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
- 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
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