Ready for business

The answer

OPEN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OPEN answer page.

Used 184 times across 44 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 33 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OPEN

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

• Unlock - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
• Candid - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
• Frank - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• Ready for customers - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• Store sign - used 71 times, most recently in 2024
• Start the bidding - used 61 times, most recently in 2024
• Unwrap - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Doing business - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Dentist's request - used 37 times, most recently in 2023
• Unlocked - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ sesame!" - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Not closed - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Ajar - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Dentist's directive - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Receptive - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Accepting customers - used 21 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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times
• Prepare for publication - EDIT, used 131 times

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