Challenge for Hannibal

The answer

ALPS

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALPS

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

• Swiss peaks - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Swiss mountains - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• European range - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Mont Blanc's range - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• "Heidi" setting - used 38 times, most recently in 2023
• European peaks - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Heidi's home - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Matterhorn's range - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Yodeler's range? - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Dolomites. - used 23 times, most recently in 1983
• Swiss range - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Sound of Music" backdrop - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• European mountain range - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• European mountains - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Sound of Music" setting - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• European chain - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Austrian peaks - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Chalet backdrop - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Hannibal's hurdles - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• High peaks - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Setting for "The Sound of Music" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Hannibal's hurdle - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Mountains - used 10 times, most recently in 1997
• "The Sound of Music" mountains - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Heidi's heights - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Hannibal crossed them - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Hannibal's challenge - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Heidi's range - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Mont Blanc range - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• Monte Rosa's range - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Salzburg vista - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Sight from Salzburg - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Skiing mecca - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Where edelweiss grows - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Brenner Pass range - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Range crossed by Hannibal - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Skiers' mecca - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• Chamois' home - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Jungfrau's range - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Matterhorn milieu - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Obstacle for Hannibal - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Skier's mecca - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• The Matterhorn's range - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Challenge - DARE, used 216 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times

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