Sonny boys

The answer

LADS

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LADS

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

• Young fellows - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• Boys - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Young chaps - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Young men - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Chaps - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Striplings - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Youths - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Young blokes - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Fellows - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Shavers - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Youngsters - used 16 times, most recently in 2014
• Young boys - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Young fellas - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Fellas - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Little shavers - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Young guys - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Little guys - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Mates - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Little boys - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Schoolboys - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Morales of "Bad Boys" - ESAI, used 31 times
• Small boys - TADS, used 19 times
• "___ Around" (Beach Boys hit) - IGET, used 18 times
• Mama's boys - SONS, used 18 times
• Boys in the family - SONS, used 13 times
• Boys, to men - SONS, used 12 times

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