One on the stump
The crossword clue "One on the stump" is answered by ORATOR, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ORATOR
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORATOR answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ORATOR
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORATOR, most used first.
- Public speaker - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Speaker - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Figure of speech? - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Loud speaker - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Skilled speaker - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Stump figure - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Speechifier - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Eloquent speaker - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Clay, for one - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Speech maker - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Spellbinder. - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Demosthenes, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Demosthenes, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Rhetorician - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Soapbox speaker - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Cicero, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Daniel Webster, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Gifted speaker - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Man of many words - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Speaker on a soapbox - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Skilled public speaker - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Speechmaker - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
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- Takes the wheel - STEERS, used 75 times
- On the beach - ASHORE, used 74 times
- One-dimensional - LINEAR, used 74 times
- On the go - ACTIVE, used 73 times
- Capital of the Bahamas - NASSAU, used 64 times
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