President before JFK
The crossword clue "President before JFK" is answered by DDE, a 3-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. 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
DDE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DDE answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 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
- 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
- Ike, initially - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- 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.
- Before - ERE, used 733 times
- Before, poetically - ERE, used 277 times
- Before now - AGO, used 273 times
- Night before - EVE, used 235 times
- Bard's "before" - ERE, used 218 times
- President pro ___ - TEM, used 208 times
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