Fictional sleuth Vance
The crossword clue "Fictional sleuth Vance" is answered by PHILO, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PHILO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PHILO answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PHILO
Every other clue in this collection answered by PHILO, most used first.
- Sleuth Vance - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- Detective Vance - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Vance of whodunits - used 7 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.
- Fictional Frome - ETHAN, used 29 times
- Fictional Doone - LORNA, used 25 times
- Fictional Swiss miss - HEIDI, used 20 times
- Fictional Scarlett - OHARA, used 18 times
- Fictional uncle - REMUS, used 18 times
- Fictional elephant - BABAR, used 17 times
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