Top roles
The crossword clue "Top roles" is answered by LEADS, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LEADS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEADS answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; 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 LEADS
Every other clue in this collection answered by LEADS, most used first.
- Starring roles - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Is ahead - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Shows the way - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Goes first - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Main roles - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Detectives follow them - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Takes charge - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Clues, to a detective - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Sales prospects - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Clues - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Top story - ATTIC, used 108 times
- Blow one's top - ERUPT, used 95 times
- From the top - AGAIN, used 93 times
- Room at the top - ATTIC, used 75 times
- Top of a wave - CREST, used 58 times
- Top-tier - ELITE, used 57 times
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