Some tests
The crossword clue "Some tests" is answered by ORALS, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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ORALS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORALS answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ORALS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORALS, most used first.
- Face-to-face exams - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Some exams - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Spoken exams - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Certain exams - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Paperless exams - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Exams - used 22 times, most recently in 1975
- Tough tests - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Spoken tests - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Verbal exams - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Ph.D. hurdles - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Face-to-face tests - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Unwritten tests - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Doctoral hurdles - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Paperless tests - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Pre-diploma hurdles - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Doctoral exams - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Unwritten exams - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Ph.D. exams - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Tests. - used 8 times, most recently in 1975
- Thesis defenses - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Certain tests - used 7 times, most recently in 1989
- Rigorous exams - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Some foreign language exams - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- They're all talk - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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- Catch some Z's - SLEEP, used 42 times
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