Like Andersen's duckling
The crossword clue "Like Andersen's duckling" is answered by UGLY, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
UGLY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UGLY answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for UGLY
Every other clue in this collection answered by UGLY, most used first.
- Hideous - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Unsightly - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- "The ___ Duckling" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard on the eyes - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
- Hostile, as a crowd - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Unattractive - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Like an eyesore - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Hard to look at - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard to watch - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Ill-favored. - used 9 times, most recently in 1994
- Like a storied duckling - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- "The __ Duckling" (fairy tale) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Far from fair - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- In pre-swan mode - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Like eyesores - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Grotesque - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Hardly handsome - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Not pretty - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Repulsive - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Far from fetching - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Hostile - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Like a fabled duckling - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Like Cinderella's stepsisters - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- "The ___ American" - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
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.
- Like ___ of bricks - ATON, used 201 times
- Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
- Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
- Like fine wine - AGED, used 99 times
- Sleep like ___ - ALOG, used 96 times
- Move like molasses - OOZE, used 83 times
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