What George couldn't tell

The answer

ALIE

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

Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALIE

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

• "I cannot tell ___" - used 292 times, most recently in 2025
• "It's a Sin to Tell ___" - used 46 times, most recently in 2022
• "That's ___!" - used 26 times, most recently in 2020
• Caught in ___ - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• "That's ___ and you know it!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's ___!" ("Not true!") - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Sam Shepard's "___ of the Mind" - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Get caught in ___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• What Washington couldn't tell - used 7 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• "What ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 224 times
• "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
• "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times
• "Look what I did!" - TADA, used 103 times
• "What are the ___?" - ODDS, used 66 times
• "What a shame!" - ALAS, used 63 times

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