Southern ___

The answer

CAL

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CAL answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. 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.

• AUSTRAL (3 uses in xd)
• BELLE (1 uses in xd)
• BORDER (1 uses in xd)
• DRAWL (1 uses in xd)
• GOTHIC (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for CAL

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

• Presidential nickname. - used 69 times, most recently in 2021
• Baseball's Ripken - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ Tech - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• "East of Eden" brother - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• "Silent" prez - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Baseball great Ripken - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Ripken of baseball - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Nev. neighbor - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• White House nickname - used 19 times, most recently in 2012
• "Iron Man" Ripken - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
• Coolidge, to friends - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Baseball's "Iron Man" Ripken - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "East of Eden" son - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• James Dean's "East of Eden" role - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Ore. neighbor - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Oriole Ripken - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Coolidge or Ripken - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Ripken of the diamond - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• "Silent" president - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Silent ___ (presidential nickname) - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Western st. - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Berkeley school, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Coolidge - used 9 times, most recently in 1984
• Coolidge nickname - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• "Silent __" - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Low-___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Ripken of the Orioles - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Baseball great Ripken Jr. - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Baseball's __ Ripken Jr. - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Berkeley campus, for short - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Golfer Peete - used 7 times, most recently in 1991
• Legendary Ripken - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Lone Eagle's monogram - used 7 times, most recently in 1990
• Berkeley school, familiarly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Berkeley university, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Infielder Ripken - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Lo-__ (lite) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Nickname for Coolidge - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Part of UCLA - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• ___ Poly - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Ripken, the Baltimore legend - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Shortstop Ripken in the Baseball Hall of Fame - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Southern constellation - ARA, used 94 times
• Southern California's Santa ___ Mountains - ANA, used 8 times
• Southern campus - LSU, used 8 times
• Southern Hemisphere constellation - ARA, used 8 times
• Southern soldier - REB, used 7 times
• Southern st. - FLA, used 7 times

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