Stud alternative
The crossword clue "Stud alternative" is answered by HOOP, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HOOP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOOP answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- EARCLIP (2 uses in xd)
- EARDROP (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for HOOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOOP, most used first.
- Basketball target - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Earring shape - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Hula __ - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Earring style - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Earring type - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Basketball rim - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Barrel part - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Cager's target - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
- Backboard attachment - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Court target - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Circular earring - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of skirt - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Ringlike earring - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Skirt shape - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Slam dunk target - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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