The elder Dumas

The answer

PERE

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PERE

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

• French father - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Father (Fr.) - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ Marquette. - used 26 times, most recently in 1993
• Dijon dad - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" - used 22 times, most recently in 2014
• "Le __ Goriot" - used 20 times, most recently in 2009
• A Dumas - used 19 times, most recently in 2014
• Father, in France - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Dumas ___. - used 16 times, most recently in 2004
• Parisian pop - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Parisian papa - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Champagne pop? - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Paris pop - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Pierre's pop - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Father, in French - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Father of France - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "___ Goriot" - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
• Member of la famille - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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