Puts on a happy face
The crossword clue "Puts on a happy face" is answered by SMILES, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
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SMILES
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Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SMILES
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- Puts up - ERECTS, used 185 times
- Puts up with - ABIDES, used 40 times
- Make happy - PLEASE, used 34 times
- Puts in office - ELECTS, used 33 times
- Puts into law - ENACTS, used 32 times
- Puts into office - ELECTS, used 28 times
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