"Man bites dog."
The crossword clue ""Man bites dog."" is answered by NEWS, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 1981; first recorded in 1930. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NEWS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NEWS answer page.
Used 14 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 1981; first recorded in 1930. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NEWS
Every other clue in this collection answered by NEWS, most used first.
- Tidings - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
- Current events - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Information - used 28 times, most recently in 2017
- Intelligence - used 27 times, most recently in 2015
- The latest - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Part of CNN - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Reporter's quest - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Latest info - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Anchor's delivery - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- What's happening - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Latest word - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Post production - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- "That's ___ to me!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- The latest happenings - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Anchor's offering - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Front page material - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Headline material - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Latest - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Word - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
- Paper contents - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Six o'clock broadcast - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
- Breaking stuff? - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Front-page stuff - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- TV program. - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
- What's going on - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- It may be breaking - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- It's breaking, at times - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- "The Bad ___ Bears" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Wire service output - 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.
- "Garfield" dog - ODIE, used 236 times
- "Beetle Bailey" dog - OTTO, used 213 times
- Dorothy's dog - TOTO, used 166 times
- "Peter Pan" dog - NANA, used 141 times
- Buster Brown's dog - TIGE, used 124 times
- Elevator man - OTIS, used 123 times
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