Affirmative replies
The crossword clue "Affirmative replies" is answered by YESES, a 5-letter entry. Used 24 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
YESES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YESES answer page.
Used 24 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for YESES
Every other clue in this collection answered by YESES, most used first.
- Affirmatives - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Approvals - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Affirmative answers - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Go-aheads - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Assents - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Affirmative responses - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Positive responses - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Busybody - YENTA, used 132 times
- Long (for) - YEARN, used 99 times
- Long - YEARN, used 79 times
- Kind of question - YESNO, used 64 times
- 1945 conference site - YALTA, used 62 times
- Irish poet - YEATS, used 56 times
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