Third man

The answer

ABEL

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

Used 32 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2018. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• REFEREE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ABEL

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

• Cain's brother - used 144 times, most recently in 2026
• First victim - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Cain's victim - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Brother of Cain - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Genesis victim - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
• Explorer Tasman - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Genesis shepherd - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Biblical shepherd - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Eve's second son - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Second son - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• Fourth person - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• First shepherd - used 34 times, most recently in 2020
• Adam's second son - used 32 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.

• Elevator man - OTIS, used 123 times
• "The Thin Man" dog - ASTA, used 105 times
• ___ of Man - ISLE, used 82 times
• Leading man? - ADAM, used 80 times
• Man, for one - ISLE, used 72 times
• Man or Wight - ISLE, used 60 times

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