Cousins of mandolins
The crossword clue "Cousins of mandolins" is answered by LUTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LUTES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LUTES answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LUTES
Every other clue in this collection answered by LUTES, most used first.
- Stringed instruments - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Pear-shaped instruments - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Minstrels' instruments - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Renaissance instruments - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Plucked instruments - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Troubadours' instruments - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Mandolin relatives - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Mandolins' cousins - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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