Big man on campus
The crossword clue "Big man on campus" is answered by DEAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
DEAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEAN answer page.
Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 10 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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Other clues for DEAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEAN, most used first.
- College official - used 113 times, most recently in 2026
- Campus bigwig - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Campus VIP - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Senior member - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- College bigwig - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- College head - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
- Campus official - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Faculty head - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- University official - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Campus figure - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- College administrator - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- College VIP - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Doyen - used 12 times, most recently in 1999
- One with a list - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
- Campus V.I.P. - used 11 times, most recently in 2001
- University bigwig - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- College faculty head - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- College V.I.P. - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Faculty boss - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Martin of the Rat Pack - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Person with a list - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- University VIP - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Campus honcho - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Dizzy or Daffy - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Official with a list - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Campus leader - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Cathedral official. - used 7 times, most recently in 1987
- "Rebel Without a Cause" star James - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- College appointment - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- College official with a list - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- "Giant" star - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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- Big fusses - ADOS, used 111 times
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- Campus mil. group - ROTC, used 103 times
- Campus military org. - ROTC, used 100 times
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