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The answer

ALAN

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

Used 29 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALAN

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

• Astronaut Shepard - used 157 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor Alda - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
• Economist Greenspan - used 80 times, most recently in 2025
• King of comedy - used 68 times, most recently in 2025
• Actor Rickman - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Mathematician Turing - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Alda of "M*A*S*H" - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
• Arkin of "Argo" - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Country singer Jackson - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor Arkin - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Shepard in space - used 44 times, most recently in 2024
• Author Paton - used 34 times, most recently in 2014
• Chester ___ Arthur. - used 33 times, most recently in 2018
• Arkin or Alda - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
• Alda or Arkin - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Rickman of "Die Hard" - used 22 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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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