Man, for one

The answer

ISLE

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

Used 72 times across 38 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 16 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.

• BIPED (8 uses in xd)
• MAMMAL (2 uses in xd)
• ANIMAL (1 uses in xd)
• PRIMATE (1 uses in xd)
• SIMIAN (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ISLE

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

• Cruise stop - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Capri, e.g. - used 109 times, most recently in 2025
• Capri, for one - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ of Man - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Archipelago part - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Castaway's home - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Man or Wight - used 60 times, most recently in 2025
• Land surrounded by water - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ of Capri - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• Wight, for one - used 47 times, most recently in 2019
• ___ of Wight - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Part of an archipelago - used 45 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times

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