Ike, initially
The crossword clue "Ike, initially" is answered by DDE, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DDE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DDE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DDE
Every other clue in this collection answered by DDE, most used first.
- Presidential monogram - used 68 times, most recently in 2023
- JFK's predecessor - used 66 times, most recently in 2025
- Ike's initials - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Ike's monogram - used 47 times, most recently in 2022
- HST's successor - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- JFK predecessor - used 34 times, most recently in 2024
- Presidential initials - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- ETO commander - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- J.F.K.'s predecessor - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- H.S.T.'s successor - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Ike - used 14 times, most recently in 2005
- President before JFK - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- White House monogram - used 13 times, most recently in 2012
- 34th pres. - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- 34th U.S. pres. - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- HST successor - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Pres. monogram - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- 34th prez - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Ike's inits. - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- White House initials - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
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.
- Mormons, initially - LDS, used 21 times
- Star Wars, initially - SDI, used 21 times
- Airport info, initially - ETA, used 17 times
- Obamacare, initially - ACA, used 12 times
- The Mormons, initially - LDS, used 11 times
- "Today" rival, initially - GMA, used 10 times
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