College benefactor Yale

The answer

ELIHU

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELIHU answer page.

Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; 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 ELIHU

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

• Root or Yale - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Statesman Root - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Philanthropist Yale - used 30 times, most recently in 2017
• Yale or Root - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
• Yale of Yale University - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Mr. Yale - used 24 times, most recently in 2022
• Peace Nobelist Root - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
• Nobelist Root - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Yale of Yale - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Root of diplomacy - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Friend of Job - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Root. - used 11 times, most recently in 1980
• Yale - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• 1912 Nobelist Root - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Diplomat Root - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Benefactor Yale - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Root - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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