Captain of fiction

The answer

NEMO

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

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1963. 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

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• AHAB (12 uses in xd)
• HOOK (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NEMO

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

• Verne captain - used 101 times, most recently in 2025
• Nautilus captain - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Jules Verne captain - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Pixar clownfish - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Captain of the Nautilus - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Verne's captain - used 40 times, most recently in 2021
• "Finding ___" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Nautilus skipper - used 33 times, most recently in 2016
• Verne character - used 28 times, most recently in 2017
• Fictional captain - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
• Pixar fish - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Verne hero - used 15 times, most recently in 2001
• No one: Lat. - used 14 times, most recently in 1967
• Verne skipper - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
• Disney fish - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Fictional submariner - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Jules Verne character. - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
• Animated fish - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Clownfish of film - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Animated clownfish - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Jules Verne hero. - used 10 times, most recently in 1996
• Lost fish of film - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Pixar title fish - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Verne submariner - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Jules Verne's captain - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Literary captain - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Lost fish in a Pixar film - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Finding ___" (2003 Pixar film) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Finding Dory" character - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Finding Dory" fish - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Finding ___" (Pixar film) - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Disney clownfish - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Finding ___" (2003 film) - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Nautilus commander - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Pixar's "Finding ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Verne's skipper - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" captain - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Fish sought by Marlin and Dory - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Pixar clown fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Pixar title character - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Skipper of the Nautilus - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• "The Mysterious Island" captain - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• "Moby-Dick" captain - AHAB, used 139 times
• Melville captain - AHAB, used 110 times
• Pequod captain - AHAB, used 69 times
• Captain of the Pequod - AHAB, used 49 times
• Jane of fiction - EYRE, used 41 times
• First name in courtroom fiction - ERLE, used 35 times

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