Comics orphan

The answer

ANNIE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANNIE answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 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.

• DONDI (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for ANNIE

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

• "Tomorrow" musical - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Sharpshooter Oakley - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Photographer Leibovitz - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• "Tomorrow" singer - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• "It's the Hard-Knock Life" musical - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Sandy's owner - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Actress Potts - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ Get Your Gun" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Little Orphan __" - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Singer Lennox - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Broadway orphan - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Hall of fame - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Oakley or Potts - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Warbucks' ward - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• Comic strip orphan - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Merman role. - used 9 times, most recently in 1977
• Miss Oakley. - used 9 times, most recently in 1958
• Musical based on a comic strip - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Musical set in an orphanage - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Daddy Warbucks' ward - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Ethel Merman role. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
• Girl with a gun - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Laurie - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• "Maybe" musical - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Movie Hall of fame - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Warbucks' charge - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Broadway hit - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Celebrity photographer Leibovitz - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• "___ Hall" - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Musical with the song "Tomorrow" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "Tomorrow" show - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Warbucks ward - used 6 times, most recently in 2004

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.

• Broom ___ (comics witch) - HILDA, used 26 times
• Comics Viking - HAGAR, used 25 times
• Japanese comics - MANGA, used 22 times
• Viking of the comics - HAGAR, used 19 times
• Canyon of the comics - STEVE, used 17 times
• Rich kid in "Nancy" comics - ROLLO, used 16 times

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