University bigwig
The crossword clue "University bigwig" is answered by DEAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEAN answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Big man on campus - used 18 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
- 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
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.
- North Carolina university - ELON, used 96 times
- Mideast bigwig - EMIR, used 49 times
- Corp. bigwig - EXEC, used 41 times
- Biz bigwig - EXEC, used 40 times
- New Haven university - YALE, used 39 times
- Houston university - RICE, used 37 times
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