Gloomy fellow

The answer

GUS

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

Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GUS

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

• Astronaut Grissom - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Gloomy guy - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Director Van Sant - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• NASA's Grissom - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• Gloomy -- - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Man's nickname. - used 13 times, most recently in 1972
• "Good Will Hunting" director Van Sant - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Milk" director Van Sant - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Gloomy one - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• The Theatre Cat in "Cats" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• "Ain't We Got Fun" lyricist Kahn - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Grissom of NASA - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Lyricist Kahn - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Young fellow - LAD, used 343 times
• "For __ a jolly good fellow..." - HES, used 155 times
• Fellow - MAN, used 127 times
• Dapper fellow - DAN, used 70 times
• That fellow - HIM, used 69 times
• Fellow - GUY, used 54 times

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