Big cheese
The crossword clue "Big cheese" is answered by NABOB, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NABOB
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NABOB answer page.
Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NABOB
Every other clue in this collection answered by NABOB, most used first.
- Bigwig - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Fat cat - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Big shot - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Big wheel - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Influential person - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Wealthy one - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
- Mogul - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- High-muck-a-muck - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Influential individual - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Powerful person - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Rich man - used 10 times, most recently in 2007
- Very rich man. - used 10 times, most recently in 1993
- Mover and shaker - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Muckety-muck - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Man of great wealth. - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Honcho - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Big hit - SMASH, used 75 times
- Dutch cheese - GOUDA, used 72 times
- Big rigs - SEMIS, used 69 times
- "Say cheese!" - SMILE, used 53 times
- Big dipper - LADLE, used 52 times
- Big name in printers - EPSON, used 49 times
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