"2001" villain

The answer

HAL

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HAL

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

• "2001" computer - used 185 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor Holbrook - used 125 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor Linden - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Shakespearean prince - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Prince of Broadway - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" computer - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Man's nickname. - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• Holbrook or Linden - used 25 times, most recently in 2019
• Linden of "Barney Miller" - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
• Movie computer - used 19 times, most recently in 2020
• Holbrook - used 17 times, most recently in 1997
• "Malcolm in the Middle" dad - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "2001" mainframe - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Falstaff's prince - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Kubrick's "2001" mainframe - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
• Kubrick's computer - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Linden or Holbrook - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Lyricist David - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Computer in "2001" - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• TV's Linden - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Golfer Sutton - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Rogue computer in "2001" - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Twain portrayer Holbrook - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Prince ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 1977
• "I'm sorry, Dave" speaker of sci-fi - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Nickname for Harold - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Sci-fi computer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Yankees owner Steinbrenner - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Country singer Ketchum - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Holbrook of "The Firm" - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Shakespeare prince - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" villain - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Computer voiced by Douglas Rain - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Hollywood's Holbrook - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Greet the villain - BOO, used 34 times
• 2001 biopic - ALI, used 28 times
• "Superman" villain Luthor - LEX, used 21 times
• "Star Wars" villain Kylo - REN, used 18 times
• Orbiter until 2001 - MIR, used 15 times
• "Despicable Me" villain - GRU, used 14 times

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