Irish hero
The crossword clue "Irish hero" is answered by EMMET, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EMMET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EMMET answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EMMET
Every other clue in this collection answered by EMMET, most used first.
- Ant - used 34 times, most recently in 2017
- Actor M. ___ Walsh - used 28 times, most recently in 2016
- Irish patriot - used 23 times, most recently in 1999
- Irish patriot Robert - used 22 times, most recently in 2015
- Irish nationalist Robert - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Irish patriot: 1778–1803 - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
- Ant, old-style - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Irish revolutionary Robert - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Ant, in dialect - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
- Character actor M. ___ Walsh - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Pismire - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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