Makes speeches
The crossword clue "Makes speeches" is answered by ORATES, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1944. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORATES
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORATES answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1944. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ORATES
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORATES, most used first.
- Gives a speech - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Speechifies - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Declaims - used 23 times, most recently in 2014
- Holds forth - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- Gives an address - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Pontificates - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Delivers a keynote - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Discourses in public - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Speaks pompously - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Delivers an address - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Emulates Cicero - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Speaks - 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.
- Makes amends - ATONES, used 118 times
- Makes up (for) - ATONES, used 63 times
- Makes sense - ADDSUP, used 47 times
- Makes into law - ENACTS, used 45 times
- Makes fun of - TEASES, used 43 times
- Makes blank - ERASES, used 31 times
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