Castilian hero

The answer

ELCID

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Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• CID (4 uses in xd)

Other clues for ELCID

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

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• Spanish national hero - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• 11th-century Spanish hero - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• 1961 Heston role - used 14 times, most recently in 2011
• Spanish folk hero - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Charlton Heston title role - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Heston role - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
• Legendary Spanish hero - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Heston epic - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• National hero of Spain - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Legendary Spaniard - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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