Old stringed instrument
The crossword clue "Old stringed instrument" is answered by LYRE, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. 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
LYRE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LYRE answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- REBECK (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for LYRE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LYRE, most used first.
- Ancient stringed instrument - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Apollo's instrument - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Instrument for Orpheus - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
- Harp's cousin - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Orpheus' instrument - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Stringed instrument - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Erato's instrument - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
- Greek harp - used 16 times, most recently in 2014
- Orpheus's instrument - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Minstrel's instrument - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Ancient harp - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Early harp - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Ancient Greek instrument - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Harplike instrument - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Muse's instrument - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Bard's instrument - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Harp relative - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- U-shaped instrument - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Ancient Greek harp - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ancient harplike instrument - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Ancient instrument - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Orpheus played one - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Erato's symbol. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
- Harp ancestor - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Old instrument - used 7 times, most recently in 1979
- Early instrument with strings - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Hand-held harp - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Instrument for a Muse - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Strings for Orpheus - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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