Detective Charlie

The answer

CHAN

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

Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CHAN

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

• Jackie of "Rush Hour" - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Sleuth Charlie - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Fictional sleuth - used 13 times, most recently in 2006
• "Rush Hour" star - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Action star Jackie - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Derr Biggers hero - used 8 times, most recently in 1992
• Oland role - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• "Rush Hour" co-star Jackie - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Rush Hour" star Jackie - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Charlie ___. - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
• Biggers' sleuth - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Fictional detective - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Gemma of "Crazy Rich Asians" - 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.

• Detective Wolfe - NERO, used 47 times
• Charlie Brown expletive - RATS, used 32 times
• Detective Wolfe of crime fiction - NERO, used 22 times
• Rex's detective - NERO, used 21 times
• Mrs. Charlie Chaplin - OONA, used 20 times
• First name in detective fiction - ERLE, used 18 times

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