Geiger of Geiger counter fame

The answer

HANS

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HANS

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

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• Painter Holbein - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Skater Brinker - used 18 times, most recently in 2012
• "Frozen" prince - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Prince in "Frozen" - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Brinker - used 13 times, most recently in 1998
• Actor Conried - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
• Author __ Christian Andersen - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Composer Zimmer - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• First name in fairy tales - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Brinker of fiction - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
• Brinker of "The Silver Skates" - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• German Johnny - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Storyteller ___ Christian Andersen - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Film composer Zimmer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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