Isle of Man man

The answer

GAEL

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GAEL answer page.

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• GENT (2 uses in xd)
• BLOKE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for GAEL

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

• Highlander - used 147 times, most recently in 2025
• Scottish Highlander - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Celt - used 35 times, most recently in 2015
• Certain Celt - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Scottish Celt - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Scot. - used 11 times, most recently in 2001
• Celtic speaker - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Highlands native - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Scotsman - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Celt or Highlander - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Manxman, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Certain Scot - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Food critic Greene - used 6 times, most recently in 2009

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Exile isle - ELBA, used 160 times
• Elevator man - OTIS, used 123 times
• "The Thin Man" dog - ASTA, used 105 times
• The Emerald Isle - EIRE, used 100 times
• Emerald Isle - ERIN, used 93 times
• ___ of Man - ISLE, used 82 times

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