Poe's foster father.
The crossword clue "Poe's foster father." is answered by ALLAN, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 1975; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ALLAN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALLAN answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 1975; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ALLAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALLAN, most used first.
- Poe's middle name - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Edgar ___ Poe - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Detective Pinkerton - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Historian Nevins - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- ___-a-Dale - used 13 times, most recently in 1996
- Haggard hero Quatermain - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Literary middle name - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Comedian Sherman - used 8 times, most recently in 2003
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- King Arthur's father - UTHER, used 27 times
- Poe's bird - RAVEN, used 27 times
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- Father - BEGET, used 23 times
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