Monastery figure
The crossword clue "Monastery figure" is answered by ABBOT, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. 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
ABBOT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABBOT answer page.
Used 13 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SUBABBOT (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for ABBOT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ABBOT, most used first.
- Monastery head - used 133 times, most recently in 2026
- Monk's superior - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Monastery leader - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Head of a monastery - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Brothers' keeper? - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Monastery superior - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Monastery VIP - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Prior's superior - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Chief monk - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Head monk - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Main monk - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Man with a mission? - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Monk's boss - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Big brother? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Cloister leader - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Monastery bigwig - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Monastery man - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Superior of a monastery - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Monastery's main man - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Monks' head - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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