Gets ready, briefly
The crossword clue "Gets ready, briefly" is answered by PREPS, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PREPS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PREPS answer page.
Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PREPS
Every other clue in this collection answered by PREPS, most used first.
- Gets ready - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Gets ready, for short - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Readies - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Readies for surgery - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Makes ready, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Readies, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Gets closer to - NEARS, used 79 times
- Gets up - RISES, used 70 times
- Ready for battle - ARMED, used 61 times
- Ready to pour - ONTAP, used 59 times
- Gets better - HEALS, used 40 times
- Ready for use - ONTAP, used 38 times
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