Big shot, for short
The crossword clue "Big shot, for short" is answered by VIP, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
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VIP
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Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for VIP
Every other clue in this collection answered by VIP, most used first.
- Big shot - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Bigwig - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Bigwig, for short - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- A-lister - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Bigwig, briefly - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of treatment - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Big shot, briefly - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Big wheel - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Red-carpet type - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- CEO, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Pooh-bah - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Red carpet walker - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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- Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
- Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times
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