Mandolin's ancestor
The crossword clue "Mandolin's ancestor" is answered by LUTE, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1983. 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
LUTE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LUTE answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LUTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LUTE, most used first.
- Minstrel's instrument - used 61 times, most recently in 2024
- Pear-shaped instrument - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Stringed instrument - used 38 times, most recently in 2022
- Mandolin's kin - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Renaissance instrument - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Mandolin kin - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Troubadour's instrument - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Mandolin cousin - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Mandolin's cousin - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Guitar ancestor - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Guitar forerunner - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Early guitar - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Old stringed instrument - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Mandolin relative - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Guitar relative - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Minstrel's strings - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Bard's instrument - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Long-necked instrument - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Musical instrument - used 8 times, most recently in 1997
- Old instrument. - used 8 times, most recently in 1975
- Guitar's ancestor - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Ren Faire instrument - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Fretted instrument - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Guitar's cousin - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Guitar's kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
Related clues
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- Cello's ancestor - VIOL, used 12 times
- Peruvian ancestor - INCA, used 12 times
- CD player ancestor - HIFI, used 10 times
- Ancestor. - SIRE, used 8 times
- Ancestor of Methuselah - ENOS, used 7 times
- Group with a common ancestor - CLAN, used 7 times
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