'70s African dictator

The answer

AMIN

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AMIN

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

• Infamous Idi - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Ugandan despot - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Idi of Uganda - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Ugandan exile - used 13 times, most recently in 2000
• Whitaker's Oscar-winning role - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Idi - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
• Ugandan tyrant - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Dictator Idi - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Uganda's Idi - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Ugandan dictator - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Despot Idi - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Exile of 1979 - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Lebanon's ___ Gemayel - used 8 times, most recently in 1992
• Cole Porter's "I ___ Love" - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Obote's deposer - used 6 times, most recently in 2005

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.

• Dutch South African - BOER, used 74 times
• African fox - ASSE, used 70 times
• African antelope - ORYX, used 63 times
• North African port - ORAN, used 46 times
• African nation - CHAD, used 43 times
• "The African Queen" screenwriter - AGEE, used 41 times

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