Mouselike critter

The answer

VOLE

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• SHREW (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for VOLE

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

• Field mouse - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
• Meadow mouse - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
• Short-tailed rodent - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Mouselike rodent - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Small rodent - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Rodent - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
• Mouselike animal - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Field rodent - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Meadow rodent - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Burrowing rodent - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Ratlike rodent - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Burrowing critter - MOLE, used 20 times
• Swamp critter - CROC, used 20 times
• Swamp critter, for short - CROC, used 18 times
• Warty critter - TOAD, used 18 times
• Barking critter - SEAL, used 16 times
• Furry sci-fi critter - EWOK, used 14 times

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