"Great" boy detective

The answer

NATE

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

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NATE

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

• Cager Archibald - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Hoopster Archibald - used 38 times, most recently in 2016
• Statistician Silver - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Basketball's Archibald - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Man's nickname. - used 19 times, most recently in 2019
• Archibald of the NBA - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
• "Great" detective of kid-lit - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Hoops great Archibald - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
• Basketball Hall of Famer Archibald - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• NBA's Archibald - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• "Tiny" Archibald - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Hoops Hall-of-Famer Thurmond - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Hoopster Thurmond - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
• Archibald of basketball - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Interior designer Berkus - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Thurmond of N.B.A. fame - used 10 times, most recently in 1990
• Thurmond of the NBA - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• "Great" kid-lit detective - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• -- the Great (kid-lit detective) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Archibald of the N.B.A. - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Cager Thurmond - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• Kid-lit detective - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "Six Feet Under" brother - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ the Great (boy detective) - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Actor Corddry of TV's "Mom" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Election analyst Silver - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Kid-lit detective ___ the Great - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Silver of FiveThirtyEight - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Thurmond of basketball - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• ___ Dogg - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Silver of fivethirtyeight.com - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• "Six Feet Under" son - 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.

• "___ boy!" - ATTA, used 390 times
• A Great Lake - ERIE, used 316 times
• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Tennis great Arthur - ASHE, used 225 times
• Mayberry boy - OPIE, used 114 times
• Great Lake - ERIE, used 112 times

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