Answer: HUG
HUG is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 78 times.
    - Cling to
 
    - Warm welcome
 
    - Consoler's offering
 
    - Warm hello
 
    - Congeniality gesture
 
    - Bear greeting?
 
    - Clutch
 
    - "Welcome home" greeting
 
    - Embrace
 
    - Warm embrace
 
    - Show of affection
 
    - X : kiss :: O : ___
 
    - Hold tight
 
    - "How about a ___!"
 
    - Bear follower
 
    - Letter O?
 
    - Greet warmly
 
    - Keep close to
 
    - Put the squeeze on?
 
    - Squeeze from mom
 
    - O, in letters
 
    - Bear's greeting?
 
    - Soft squeeze
 
    - Bear of a greeting?
 
    - Warm squeeze
 
    - Cuddle
 
    - Warm Mother's Day present?
 
    - Big embrace
 
    - Good thing to give your child
 
    - Part of a warm welcome
 
    - Bear's offering
 
    - Affectionate gesture
 
    - O, symbolically
 
    - Friendly greeting
 
    - Warm greeting
 
    - Bit of TLC
 
    - Give a squeeze
 
    - What O may mean
 
    - An O may symbolize one
 
    - Main squeeze's squeeze
 
    - Enfold
 
    - Embraces
 
    - Reunion greeting 
 
    - Welcoming greeting
 
    - Stick close to
 
    - Group ___
 
    - O, in a love note
 
    - Clasp
 
    - O, at times
 
    - Bear ___
 
    - Child's reward, often
 
    - Response of empathy
 
    - O after an X, say
 
    - Squeeze
 
    - 'O' in a letter, maybe
 
    - Put the squeeze on
 
    - Clasp tightly
 
    - Word after group or bear
 
    - O, in a love letter
 
    - O, on a greeting card
 
    - What "O" may symbolize
 
    - It brings people together
 
    - Affectionate greeting
 
    - Kiss go-with
 
    - What an "O" means in XOXO
 
    - Affectionate embrace
 
    - Greeting from Grandma
 
    - Fit tightly around
 
    - The "O" in XO
 
    - Follow closely, as curves
 
    - Follow closely, as the curb
 
    - Either "O" in "XOXO"
 
    - The "o" of xo
 
    - What "O" might stand for
 
    - Common airport greeting
 
    - O, on a letter
 
    - Hold close to the heart
 
    - Hold dear, perhaps