Mythical Spartan queen

The answer

LEDA

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LEDA

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

• Mother of Castor and Pollux - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Helen of Troy's mother - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Mother of Helen of Troy - used 60 times, most recently in 2025
• Castor's mother - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Spartan queen - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Helen's mother - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Mother of Pollux - used 23 times, most recently in 2018
• Mother of Helen - used 21 times, most recently in 2018
• Clytemnestra's mother - used 20 times, most recently in 2022
• Mother of Castor - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• "___ and the Swan" (Yeats) - used 18 times, most recently in 2013
• Moon of Jupiter - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• Swan lady - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Queen of Sparta - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• "___ and the Swan" (Yeats poem) - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
• Pollux's mother - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Wife of Tyndareus - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Yeats's "__ and the Swan" - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• "___ and the Swan" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Mother of Clytemnestra - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Swan girl - used 8 times, most recently in 2003
• Helen of Troy's mom - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Mythical queen of Sparta - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Swan lover of myth - used 6 times, most recently in 2010

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.

• "Frozen" queen - ELSA, used 151 times
• "Dancing Queen" group - ABBA, used 83 times
• Hindu queen - RANI, used 73 times
• "Dancing Queen" band - ABBA, used 68 times
• "Frozen" snow queen - ELSA, used 63 times
• Queen of Carthage - DIDO, used 63 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.