Crotchety sort
The crossword clue "Crotchety sort" is answered by COOT, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COOT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COOT answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for COOT
Every other clue in this collection answered by COOT, most used first.
- Geezer - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Codger - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
- Water bird. - used 24 times, most recently in 2011
- Aquatic bird - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Ducklike bird - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Eccentric fellow - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Curmudgeon - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Old geezer - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Scoter - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
- Eccentric oldster - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Crotchety oldster - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Diving bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Crotchety one - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Old codger - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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- Uncool sort - NERD, used 32 times
- Stuck-up sort - SNOB, used 27 times
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