Contrary girl
The crossword clue "Contrary girl" is answered by MARY, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MARY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MARY answer page.
Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MARY
Every other clue in this collection answered by MARY, most used first.
- Painter Cassatt - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Mother of Jesus - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Pietà figure - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Contrary one - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- "Frankenstein" author Shelley - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Queen of Scots - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Creche figure - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Nativity scene figure - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ Poppins - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- "Quite contrary" lass - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- "___ girl!" - ATTA, used 238 times
- Green Gables girl - ANNE, used 236 times
- Salinger girl - ESME, used 108 times
- Scottish girl - LASS, used 69 times
- Hardy girl - TESS, used 60 times
- "___ girl!" - ITSA, used 58 times
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