Ugandan tyrant

The answer

AMIN

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

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• IDIAMIN (2 uses in xd)
• IDI (1 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• '70s African dictator - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• 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.

• Roman tyrant - NERO, used 31 times
• Tyrant - OGRE, used 12 times
• Tyrant - TSAR, used 8 times
• Tyrant. - NERO, used 7 times
• Fiddling Roman tyrant - NERO, used 6 times
• Fiddling tyrant - NERO, used 6 times

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