Lean eater of rhyme
The crossword clue "Lean eater of rhyme" is answered by SPRAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SPRAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPRAT answer page.
Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPRAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPRAT, most used first.
- Small herring - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- "Jack __ could eat no fat..." - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack who ate no fat - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Dieter of rhyme - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
- Jack of rhyme - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Jack who could eat no fat - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack of nursery rhymes - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Nursery rhyme dieter - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack in a nursery rhyme - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Little fish. - used 9 times, most recently in 1967
- Small fish - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Nursery rhyme Jack - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Young herring - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
- Herring - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
- Jack with a low-fat diet - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Nursery rhyme character. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
- Nursery rhyme name - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Fat eschewer of rhyme - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Jack who avoided fat - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Jack who eschewed fat - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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
- Piper of rhyme - PETER, used 27 times
- Start of a counting rhyme - EENIE, used 26 times
- Pumpkin eater of rhyme - PETER, used 18 times
- "His wife could ___ lean" - EATNO, used 14 times
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