DDE beat him twice

The answer

AES

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AES answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; 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 AES

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

• Roman bronze - used 54 times, most recently in 1998
• Loser to DDE - used 52 times, most recently in 2013
• Loser to D.D.E. - used 42 times, most recently in 2020
• DDE opponent - used 38 times, most recently in 2021
• DDE's opponent - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Two-time loser to DDE - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• DDE's rival - used 12 times, most recently in 2009
• Loser to H.C.H. - used 12 times, most recently in 1993
• Roman money - used 11 times, most recently in 1976
• DDE foe - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• DDE rival - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• JFK's UN ambassador - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• D.D.E. opponent - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• One of the Stevensons. - used 8 times, most recently in 1965
• Opponent of DDE - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Two-time loser to D.D.E. - used 7 times, most recently in 2009

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.

• Beat walker - COP, used 43 times
• He/him/___ - HIS, used 29 times
• Him, to Henri - LUI, used 28 times
• DDE predecessor - HST, used 25 times
• __ double take; look twice - DOA, used 22 times
• Barely beat - NIP, used 21 times

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