Manly
The crossword clue "Manly" is answered by MACHO, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MACHO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MACHO answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for MACHO
Every other clue in this collection answered by MACHO, most used first.
- Like a he-man - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ Man" (Village People hit) - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Virile - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Swaggering - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Hairy-chested - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardly wimpy - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Ultra-manly - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Very manly - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Chest-thumping - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Like he-men - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Two-fisted - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Aggressively virile - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Like Rambo - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Studly - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Hypermasculine - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Very virile - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Intended - MEANT, used 241 times
- Free-for-all - MELEE, used 223 times
- Craze - MANIA, used 202 times
- Taj ___ - MAHAL, used 182 times
- New Zealand native - MAORI, used 175 times
- Deserve - MERIT, used 159 times
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