Falk of "Columbo"

The answer

PETER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PETER answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PETER

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

• Flying Pan - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Piper of rhyme - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Fizzle (out) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Pumpkin eater of rhyme - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Man of principle? - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Actor O'Toole - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Wendy's friend - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Actor Dinklage - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• First pope - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Fictional rabbit - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• One of the Apostles - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• ___ out (dwindle) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Dwindle, with "out" - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Friend of Wendy - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• A Fonda - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Nero, the piano player - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Wane, with "out" - used 6 times, most recently in 2011

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.

• Danger - PERIL, used 242 times
• Sacred song - PSALM, used 199 times
• Blender setting - PUREE, used 169 times
• Tubular pasta - PENNE, used 161 times
• Intrinsically - PERSE, used 142 times
• Jeopardy - PERIL, used 137 times

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