Student's focus

The answer

MAJOR

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAJOR answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MAJOR

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

• College study - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Captain's superior - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Significant - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• College concentration - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Big-time - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Army officer - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• College declaration - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Important - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Principal - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Shaw's Barbara - used 7 times, most recently in 1998
• Thatcher's successor - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Very important - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• College choice - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Colonel's subordinate - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Military rank - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Student's declaration - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Manicurist's focus - NAILS, used 18 times
• Fanzine focus - CELEB, used 8 times
• Interior designer's focus - DECOR, used 8 times
• Loses focus - BLURS, used 8 times
• Art student's prop - EASEL, used 7 times
• Chiropractor's focus - SPINE, used 7 times

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