Famous friend

The answer

DAMON

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAMON answer page.

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2004; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• PENN (4 uses in xd)

Other clues for DAMON

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

• Friend of Pythias - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Actor Matt - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Pal of Pythias - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Bourne's portrayer - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Pythias' friend - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
• Matt of Hollywood - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Matt of movies - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Martian" star - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Pythias's friend - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Pythias' pal - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Writer Runyon - used 6 times, most recently in 2005

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.

• Famous - NOTED, used 130 times
• As a friend: Fr. - ENAMI, used 41 times
• Spanish friend - AMIGO, used 33 times
• Friend of D'Artagnan - ATHOS, used 31 times
• Kukla's friend - OLLIE, used 26 times
• Female friend, in Spanish - AMIGA, used 24 times

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