Relative of a gator
The crossword clue "Relative of a gator" is answered by CROC, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
CROC
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CROC answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CROC
Every other clue in this collection answered by CROC, most used first.
- Gator's cousin - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Gator's kin - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
- Gator cousin - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Gator kin - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Gator relative - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Gator's relative - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Swamp critter - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Swamp critter, for short - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Swamp thing - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Holey shoe - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Reptile, for short. - used 13 times, most recently in 1989
- Shoe with holes - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Caiman's cousin - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Hook's nemesis - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- "Peter Pan" critter - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Nile denizen, for short - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- "Peter Pan" beast - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Swamp snapper - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Swamp beast - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Rabbit relative - HARE, used 105 times
- Relative of etc. - ETAL, used 97 times
- Onion relative - LEEK, used 83 times
- Bassoon relative - OBOE, used 69 times
- Gull relative - TERN, used 51 times
- Frog relative - TOAD, used 46 times
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