Red Guard leader

The answer

MAO

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAO answer page.

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MAO

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

• Chinese chairman - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
• Long March leader - used 70 times, most recently in 2023
• -- Zedong - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• Chairman of China - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• "Little Red Book" author - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese name. - used 24 times, most recently in 1971
• ___ Tse-tung - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
• Cultural Revolution leader - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
• Great Leap Forward leader - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese leader - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• China's ___ Zedong - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Kind of jacket - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• "Little Red Book" writer - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Warhol subject - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Chairman __ - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• China's Chairman ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Longtime Chinese chairman - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• "Nixon in China" role - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Chairman of note - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Autumn Harvest Uprising leader - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Former Chinese chairman - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Leader of the Long March - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• "Little Red Book" chairman - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Longtime Chinese leader - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• 1972 host to Nixon - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Chinese Red. - used 9 times, most recently in 1997
• Late Chinese leader - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Red head, once? - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
• Chairman with a Little Red Book - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Noted Warhol subject - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Peking name - used 8 times, most recently in 1977
• Red Guard idol - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• China chairman - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Former Chinese leader - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Former Red head - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Great Leap Forward proponent - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• ___ jacket - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• __ jacket (Chinese attire) - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Onetime Chinese chairman - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Andy Warhol portrait subject - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Chiang adversary - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Chinese leader Zedong - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Chinese revolutionary - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nixon in China" character - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Onetime Chinese leader - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Red leader - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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