"Growing Up in New Guinea" author

The answer

MEAD

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MEAD answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• MARGARETMEAD (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for MEAD

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

• Anthropologist Margaret - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Honey drink - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Hoover Dam's lake - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
• Hoover Dam lake - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "Beowulf" beverage - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• Fermented honey drink - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Lake formed by Hoover Dam - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Honeyed drink - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Coming of Age in Samoa" author - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Samoa studier - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
• "Beowulf" quaff - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Honey liquor - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Honey wine - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Fermented honey beverage - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Fermented drink - used 8 times, most recently in 1996
• Honey beverage - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Western lake - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Beverage for Beowulf - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Honey-based beverage - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Honey-based drink - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Honey of a drink? - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Renaissance Faire quaff - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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