Santa's little helper
The crossword clue "Santa's little helper" is answered by ELF, a 3-letter entry. Used 29 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ELF
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELF answer page.
Used 29 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ELF
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELF, most used first.
- Sprite - used 217 times, most recently in 2026
- Santa's helper - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
- North Pole worker - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Pixie - used 82 times, most recently in 2025
- Pole worker - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Arctic assistant - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Leprechaun - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
- Brownie - used 28 times, most recently in 2015
- North Pole assistant - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- North Pole toymaker - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Seasonal helper - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
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