"___ jolly good fellow . . . "

The answer

HESA

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• CHAP (3 uses in xd)
• FORHESA (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for HESA

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

• "For ___ jolly good fellow . . . " - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "For ___ jolly . . . " - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• "For ___ jolly good . . . " - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• "__ real nowhere man ..." - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
• "__ Rebel": 1962 hit - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• The Crystals' "___ Rebel" - 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.

• Fellow - CHAP, used 204 times
• ___ good example - SETA, used 133 times
• "The Good Earth" heroine - OLAN, used 92 times
• Good earth - LOAM, used 72 times
• Fellow - GENT, used 66 times
• British fellow - CHAP, used 60 times

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