Polite rural reply
The crossword clue "Polite rural reply" is answered by YESM, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2006. 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
YESM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YESM answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for YESM
Every other clue in this collection answered by YESM, most used first.
- Quaint affirmative - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Polite assent - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Reply to a schoolmarm - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Polite rural assent - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Cowpoke's polite assent - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Quaint assent - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tom Sawyer affirmative - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Roll call reply - HERE, used 97 times
- Polite address - MAAM, used 88 times
- Reply to "Shall we?" - LETS, used 55 times
- Reply to the Little Red Hen - NOTI, used 41 times
- Rural hotels - INNS, used 41 times
- Slangy reply - YEAH, used 39 times
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