"__ real nowhere man ..."

The answer

HESA

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

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• "__ Rebel": 1962 hit - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• "___ jolly good fellow . . . " - used 6 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.

• Elevator man - OTIS, used 123 times
• "The Thin Man" dog - ASTA, used 105 times
• ___ of Man - ISLE, used 82 times
• Leading man? - ADAM, used 80 times
• Man, for one - ISLE, used 72 times
• "It's ___ real!" - BEEN, used 66 times

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