Poet Scott-Heron

The answer

GIL

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GIL answer page.

Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GIL

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

• Baseball's Hodges - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Blas" - used 35 times, most recently in 2014
• Hodges of baseball - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Baseball great Hodges - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Hodges of the Dodgers - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Actor Gerard - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "CSI" forensic scientist Grissom - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Jazz pianist Evans - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Actor Bellows - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• "___ Blas" (Lesage novel) - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Hodges - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• Baseballer Hodges - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Buck Rogers portrayer Gerard - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Gerard of "Buck Rogers" - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Gerard or Hodges - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Jazz arranger Evans - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Lesage's "___ Blas" - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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• "Annabel Lee" poet - POE, used 41 times
• Before, to a poet - ERE, used 41 times
• Poet Hughes - TED, used 39 times
• "The Bells" poet - POE, used 29 times

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