Eastern ideal
The crossword clue "Eastern ideal" is answered by TAO, a 3-letter entry. Used 26 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TAO
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAO answer page.
Used 26 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TAO
Every other clue in this collection answered by TAO, most used first.
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- Chinese "way" - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Eastern path - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ Te Ching" - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Lao-tzu's "way" - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Confucian path - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Chinese philosophy - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Chinese principle - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- "The ___ of Pooh" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Confucian ideal - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Way of the East - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Confucian principle - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- "The Way" - used 24 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.
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