Conciliatory gesture
The crossword clue "Conciliatory gesture" is answered by SOP, a 3-letter entry. Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SOP
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SOP answer page.
Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by SOP, most used first.
- Soak (up) - used 246 times, most recently in 2026
- Bribe - used 117 times, most recently in 2024
- Absorb, with "up" - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Drench - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ up (absorb) - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Saturate - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Soak (up), as gravy - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Pacifier - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Sponge (up) - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Conciliatory gift - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Conciliatory offering - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Soak - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Concession - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Placebo - used 10 times, most recently in 1992
- Dunk. - used 9 times, most recently in 1971
- Absorb - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Make soaking wet - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Payoff - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Bread for dipping - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Bread for dipping, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Conciliatory bribe - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Dip, as bread in gravy - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Apply bread to gravy - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
- Bread, at times - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Soak (up), as sauce - 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.
- Churchill gesture - VEE, used 25 times
- Churchill's gesture - VEE, used 16 times
- Churchillian gesture - VEE, used 12 times
- Head gesture - NOD, used 10 times
- "Yes" gesture - NOD, used 9 times
- Auction gesture - NOD, used 8 times
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