Detective Archer

The answer

LEW

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEW answer page.

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LEW

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

• Actor Ayres - used 82 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ben-Hur" author Wallace - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Author Wallace - used 25 times, most recently in 2009
• Kareem, once - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• "Ben-Hur" novelist Wallace - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Hoad of tennis - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Kareem, before - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• Writer Wallace - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• ___ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's former name) - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's birth name) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Ayres or Wallace - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Wallace who wrote "Ben-Hur" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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• Pet detective Ventura - ACE, used 8 times

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