John Wayne, by birth

The answer

IOWAN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IOWAN answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IOWAN

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

• Hawkeye - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Des Moines resident - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Des Moines native - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Dubuque native - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Cedar Rapids resident - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Hawkeye State resident - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Citizen of the 29th state - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Davenport denizen - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Dubuque denizen - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Cedar Rapids native - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Herbert Hoover, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Hawkeye Stater - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Herbert Hoover, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Herbert Hoover, by birth - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Person from Des Moines - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Dubuque resident - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Grant Wood, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

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• Birth-related - NATAL, used 180 times
• Singer John - ELTON, used 103 times
• Rocker John - ELTON, used 78 times
• Of birth - NATAL, used 62 times
• "John Brown's Body" poet - BENET, used 54 times
• John ___ Garner - NANCE, used 44 times

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