Cabinet department until 1947

The answer

WAR

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WAR answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for WAR

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

• Simple card game - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
• Armed conflict - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
• Kids' card game - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Conflict - used 37 times, most recently in 2017
• Card game for two - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Combat - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Fighting - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Major conflict - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Series of battles - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "This means ___!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• General activity - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Tug of ___ - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Card game - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Cold ___. - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
• -- of 1812 - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Mindless card game - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Two-player card game - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ and Peace" - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Children's card game - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Hell, to Sherman - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• Hostilities - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Serious conflict - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Wouk's "The Winds of ___" - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Military conflict - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• One of the Four Horsemen - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Open hostilities - used 8 times, most recently in 2001
• Realm of Ares - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
• Tolstoy title word - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• "Avengers: Infinity ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Basic card game - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Kid's card game - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Part of WWII - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Series of skirmishes - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Card game with a belligerent name - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Former Cabinet department - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Old Maid alternative - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• "Saving Private Ryan" backdrop - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Sherman's "hell" - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Tolstoy topic - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Cabinet dept. - AGR, used 74 times
• Until now - YET, used 39 times
• Cabinet wood - ASH, used 23 times
• Up until now - YET, used 17 times
• Orbiter until 2001 - MIR, used 15 times
• Cabinet dept. since 1965 - HUD, used 11 times

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