A, as in Athens
The crossword clue "A, as in Athens" is answered by ALPHA, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ALPHA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALPHA answer page.
Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ALPHA
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALPHA, most used first.
- First Greek letter - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Dominant - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Omega's opposite - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
- Top dog - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Greek leader? - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- First letter - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- __-Bits (letter-shaped cereal) - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Greek letter - used 22 times, most recently in 2015
- Letter before beta - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Leader of the pack - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Socially dominant - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Series opener - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Beginning - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
- First in a series - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Greek vowel - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Constellation's brightest star - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Homer's first letter - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- ___ male - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- ___ Centauri - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Pack leader - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Aristotle's A - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- First letter of the Greek alphabet - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Generation after Z - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Dominant male - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- First of a series - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- "___ of Athens" - TIMON, used 18 times
- Athens marketplace - AGORA, used 10 times
- Shakespeare's "___ of Athens" - TIMON, used 10 times
- From Athens - GREEK, used 9 times
- "Maid of Athens, __ part": Byron - EREWE, used 9 times
- Shopping hub of old Athens - AGORA, used 9 times
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