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DOPE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DOPE answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DOPE

Every other clue in this collection answered by DOPE, most used first.

• Inside info - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Info - used 43 times, most recently in 2018
• Nitwit - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Blockhead - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Lowdown - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Knucklehead - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Numskull - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Idiot - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Nincompoop - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Numbskull - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Ninny - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "Rad!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Skinny - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Dummy - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Inside scoop - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Sweet!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

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• Coffee, slangily - JAVA, used 61 times
• News bit - ITEM, used 55 times
• Bit of news - ITEM, used 52 times
• Russian news agency - TASS, used 50 times
• Piece of news - ITEM, used 48 times

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