Wild animal
The crossword clue "Wild animal" is answered by BOAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BOAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOAR answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 2 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.
Other clues for BOAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by BOAR, most used first.
- Wild hog - used 112 times, most recently in 2026
- Wild pig - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Sow's mate - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
- Male pig - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Tusked beast - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Big pig - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Wild swine - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Sty guy - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Male guinea pig - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Hog wild? - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Piglet's papa - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Tusked animal - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
- Piglet's pop - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Male swine - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Male hog - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Porcine tusker - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Swine with tusks - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Slayer of Adonis - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Adonis's slayer - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Piglet's dad - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Tusked critter - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Adonis's killer - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
- Guy in a sty - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- Wild guess - STAB, used 480 times
- Wild plum - SLOE, used 151 times
- Run ___ (go wild) - AMOK, used 142 times
- Antlered animal - STAG, used 107 times
- Wild goat - IBEX, used 100 times
- Wild about - INTO, used 88 times
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