Scottish John

The answer

IAN

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IAN answer page.

Used 34 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 10 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.

• RAE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for IAN

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

• Author Fleming - used 275 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor McKellen - used 168 times, most recently in 2026
• Writer Fleming - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• 007 creator Fleming - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• "At Seventeen" singer Janis - used 66 times, most recently in 2025
• Golfer Woosnam - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
• Singer Janis - used 53 times, most recently in 2024
• McKellen of "X-Men" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor Holm - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Bond creator Fleming - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• James Bond creator Fleming - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor McShane - used 29 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.

• Scottish river - DEE, used 103 times
• Scottish cap - TAM, used 98 times
• Arctic explorer John - RAE, used 90 times
• Anonymous John - DOE, used 86 times
• Scottish "no" - NAE, used 59 times
• Scottish uncle - EME, used 56 times

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