"__ boy!" ("Way to go!")

The answer

ATTA

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

Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ATTA

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

• "___ boy!" - used 390 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ girl!" - used 238 times, most recently in 2026
• Lead-in to boy or girl - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Kofi __ Annan - used 27 times, most recently in 2009
• Boy or girl lead-in - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Palindromic flour - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Chapati flour - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Roti flour - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ baby!" - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
• "___ girl!" ("Way to go!") - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Lead-in to girl - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ boy!" ("Nice going!") - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "A Bug's Life" princess - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Lead-in to girl or boy - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ way!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Beginning for boy or girl - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Encouraging start? - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Encouraging word - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Indian flour - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Intro for boy or girl - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Naan flour - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Girl lead-in - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Lead-in for boy or girl - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Lead-in to boy - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Start for boy or girl - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "__ way to go!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Palindromic Indian flour - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Puri flour - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Start for girl or boy - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Sweetsop - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Word before boy or girl - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• '-- boy!' - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• The U.N.'s Kofi ___ Annan - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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.

• Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
• Way off - AFAR, used 229 times
• Mayberry boy - OPIE, used 114 times
• Way out there - AFAR, used 104 times
• One way to run - AMOK, used 102 times
• Woody's boy - ARLO, used 88 times

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