Alex Haley classic

The answer

ROOTS

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ROOTS

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

• Alex Haley book - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Origins - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Ancestry - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Cheers (for) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Alex Haley saga - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Haley book - used 10 times, most recently in 1999
• Haley opus - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• Genealogy - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Plant parts - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Alex Haley novel - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Cheers - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Underground network - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Alex Haley opus - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Tree anchors - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Underground plant parts - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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