Sewing machine inventor Elias
The crossword clue "Sewing machine inventor Elias" is answered by HOWE, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
HOWE
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Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HOWE
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOWE, most used first.
- Sewing machine inventor - used 39 times, most recently in 2021
- Hockey great Gordie - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Inventor Elias - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Hockey's Gordie - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hockey legend Gordie - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Gordie of hockey - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Suffragist Julia Ward ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Gordie of the NHL - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
- "Battle Hymn . . . " composer - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
- Julia Ward ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
- U.S. inventor - used 7 times, most recently in 1975
- Elias or Gordie - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- Sewing case - ETUI, used 50 times
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