Signs of sadness
The crossword clue "Signs of sadness" is answered by TEARS, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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
TEARS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TEARS answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TEARS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TEARS, most used first.
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- Rips - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Signs of sorrow - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Sign of sorrow - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Rips (up) - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Glum drops - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- In __; weeping - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Pulls apart - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Salty drops - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Crocodile __ - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Weeper's drops - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Origami mishaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Waterworks - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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- Signs of things to come - OMENS, used 46 times
- Foreboding signs - OMENS, used 28 times
- Signs to heed - OMENS, used 25 times
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