Mississippi River discoverer
The crossword clue "Mississippi River discoverer" is answered by DESOTO, a 6-letter entry. Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DESOTO
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DESOTO answer page.
Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DESOTO
Every other clue in this collection answered by DESOTO, most used first.
- Mississippi River explorer - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Explorer Hernando - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Spanish explorer - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Conquistador Hernando - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Mississippi discoverer - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
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