Quested in "A Passage to India"

The answer

ADELA

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADELA answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ADELA

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

• Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ Rogers St. Johns - used 46 times, most recently in 2008
• Journalist ___ Rogers St. Johns - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Girl's name. - used 28 times, most recently in 1969
• "A Passage to India" heroine - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Writer St. Johns - used 18 times, most recently in 2000
• Author __ Rogers St. Johns - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• "A Passage to India" woman - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Author St. Johns - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Ms. Rogers St. Johns - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
• "A Passage to India" character - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Daughter of William the Conqueror - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• Miss St. Johns - used 8 times, most recently in 1976
• Writer St. John - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
• Journalist St. Johns - used 6 times, most recently in 2008

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.

• New __, India - DELHI, used 67 times
• State of India - ASSAM, used 37 times
• State in northeast India - ASSAM, used 25 times
• Mine passage - SHAFT, used 24 times
• Language of India - HINDI, used 20 times
• Passage - AISLE, used 20 times

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