His Rose was Irish

The answer

ABIE

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

Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ABIE

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

• Irish Rose's lover - used 36 times, most recently in 2018
• Irish Rose lover - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
• Rose's love - used 26 times, most recently in 2016
• "___ Baby" ("Hair" song) - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Nichols hero - used 22 times, most recently in 2004
• Anne Nichols hero - used 21 times, most recently in 2005
• Irish Rose's beau - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
• "___ Baby" (song from "Hair") - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Rose's guy - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• Irish Rose's guy - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Man's nickname. - used 13 times, most recently in 1973
• Rose lover - used 13 times, most recently in 2009
• Rose's beau - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
• Rose's lover - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• He had an Irish Rose - used 11 times, most recently in 2009
• Irish Rose's man - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Rose's spouse. - used 11 times, most recently in 1974
• Rose's Broadway beau - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Anne Nichols' hero. - used 9 times, most recently in 1966
• Lover of an Irish Rose - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Rose fancier - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
• Irish Rose's love - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• He loved Rose - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Hero of 2,327 performances. - used 7 times, most recently in 1984

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.

• "That was close!" - PHEW, used 117 times
• "When I was ___ . . . " - ALAD, used 96 times
• One-named Irish singer - ENYA, used 87 times
• Was aware of - KNEW, used 70 times
• "To ___ his own" - EACH, used 69 times
• Was in debt - OWED, used 69 times

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