__ bonding
The crossword clue "__ bonding" is answered by MALE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. 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
MALE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MALE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 5 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.
- ADHESION (2 uses in xd)
- GLUING (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for MALE
Every other clue in this collection answered by MALE, most used first.
- Guy - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Like ganders - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Masculine - used 31 times, most recently in 2016
- Man or boy - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Boy or man - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Buck or bull - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Tom, Dick, or Harry - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of bonding - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Y chromosome carrier - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
- Cob or drake - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Virile - used 11 times, most recently in 2005
- Ram or rooster - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- "The ___ Animal" - used 10 times, most recently in 1995
- Fellow - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Like drone bees - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Like stallions - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Rooster or ram - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Rooster or stallion - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Stag or stallion - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Capital of the Maldives - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Cock or bull - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Drone, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Like bucks - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Like bulls and bucks - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Stag - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Like bulls - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Like every U.S. president - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Staminate - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- "___ Lisa" - MONA, used 306 times
- Bearing - MIEN, used 224 times
- Repair - MEND, used 208 times
- Dole (out) - METE, used 206 times
- ___ Hari - MATA, used 197 times
- Created - MADE, used 182 times
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