Rostropovich's instrument
The crossword clue "Rostropovich's instrument" is answered by CELLO, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CELLO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CELLO answer page.
Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1987. 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.
- VIOLINCELLO (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for CELLO
Every other clue in this collection answered by CELLO, most used first.
- Yo-Yo Ma's instrument - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- String quartet member - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Casals' instrument - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
- Ma's instrument - used 22 times, most recently in 2019
- Stringed instrument - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Large stringed instrument - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- String quartet instrument - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Quartet member - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Viola's cousin - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Violin's big brother - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Casals's instrument - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Instrument played while seated - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Pablo Casals' instrument - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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- Church instrument - ORGAN, used 83 times
- Shankar's instrument - SITAR, used 62 times
- Stringed instrument - VIOLA, used 51 times
- Bluegrass instrument - BANJO, used 47 times
- Indian instrument - SITAR, used 44 times
- Ravi Shankar's instrument - SITAR, used 36 times
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