Cotton gin inventor Whitney
The crossword clue "Cotton gin inventor Whitney" is answered by ELI, a 3-letter entry. Used 37 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ELI
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELI answer page.
Used 37 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ELI
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELI, most used first.
- Inventor Whitney - used 400 times, most recently in 2026
- Yale student - used 326 times, most recently in 2026
- Quarterback Manning - used 273 times, most recently in 2026
- Yalie - used 253 times, most recently in 2026
- Actor Wallach - used 245 times, most recently in 2026
- Yale rooter - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
- Ivy Leaguer - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
- Peyton's brother - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
- Yale grad - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- New Haven student - used 85 times, most recently in 2025
- Samuel's teacher - used 83 times, most recently in 2023
- New Haven collegian - used 64 times, most recently in 2025
- QB Manning - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Connecticut collegian - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Whitney - used 54 times, most recently in 2016
- Whitney or Wallach - used 53 times, most recently in 2023
- Certain Ivy Leaguer - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Lilly of pharmaceuticals - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Two-time Super Bowl MVP Manning - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Samuel's mentor - used 43 times, most recently in 2023
- Biblical judge - used 42 times, most recently in 2022
- Pharmaceutical giant ___ Lilly - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- "Boola Boola" singer - used 41 times, most recently in 2018
- Bulldog backer - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Wallach or Whitney - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
- Bulldog booster - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Former Giants quarterback Manning - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Biblical priest - used 32 times, most recently in 2021
- "Hostel" director Roth - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Director Roth - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Giant Manning - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Yale alum - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Manning of the NFL - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
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