Pumpkin eater of rhyme

The answer

PETER

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

Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 9 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
• 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
• Falk of "Columbo" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Eucalyptus eater - KOALA, used 76 times
• Bamboo eater - PANDA, used 58 times
• "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin ___" - EATER, used 38 times
• Start of a counting rhyme - EENIE, used 26 times
• Dieter of rhyme - SPRAT, used 18 times
• Jack of rhyme - SPRAT, used 16 times

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