Mamas' boys

The answer

SONS

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SONS

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

• Family members - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
• Male children - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Offspring - used 27 times, most recently in 2019
• Some heirs - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Male offspring - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ and Lovers" - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
• Mama's boys - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Some offspring - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Some babies - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Some children - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Some business partners - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Babies in blue - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Boys in the family - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "My Three __" - used 13 times, most recently in 2009
• "___ of Anarchy" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Boys, to men - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Male heirs - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Heirs, often - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Male deliveries - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Princes, e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ and Lovers" (D. H. Lawrence novel) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• About half of all deliveries - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Chips off the old block - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Part of S.A.R. - used 8 times, most recently in 2000
• Boys in a family - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Children. - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• Dad's boys - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Daughters' counterparts - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Mom's boys - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Pearl Buck book - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Princes, but not princesses - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Some deliveries - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Some progeny - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Steinway & __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "The ___ of Katie Elder" - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Boys - LADS, used 82 times
• Morales of "Bad Boys" - ESAI, used 31 times
• Small boys - TADS, used 19 times
• "___ Around" (Beach Boys hit) - IGET, used 18 times
• Young boys - LADS, used 15 times
• "The Lost Boys" actor Corey - HAIM, used 10 times

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