Clandestine meeting

The answer

TRYST

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRYST answer page.

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TRYST

Every other clue in this collection answered by TRYST, most used first.

• Secret meeting - used 93 times, most recently in 2025
• Rendezvous - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Romantic rendezvous - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Secret rendezvous - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Assignation - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Lovers' meeting - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Lovers' rendezvous - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Meeting. - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Romantic meeting - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Boy meets girl. - used 7 times, most recently in 1967
• Covert meeting - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Lovers' engagement - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Lovers' secret meeting - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Secret get-together - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Public meeting - FORUM, used 14 times
• Mass meeting - RALLY, used 10 times
• Ancient meeting place - AGORA, used 8 times
• Meeting point - NEXUS, used 8 times
• Run the meeting - CHAIR, used 8 times
• "This meeting could have been an ___" - EMAIL, used 8 times

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