Man's nickname.

The answer

WES

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WES answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1972; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 1 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.

• LEN (50 uses in xd)
• NED (47 uses in xd)
• NAT (38 uses in xd)
• PETE (35 uses in xd)
• HAL (29 uses in xd)

Other clues for WES

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

• Director Craven - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
• Director Anderson - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• Jazz guitarist Montgomery - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• "Scream" director Craven - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Horror director Craven - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Jazzman Montgomery - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "Rushmore" director Anderson - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel" director Anderson - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• "Isle of Dogs" director Anderson - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "The French Dispatch" director Anderson - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• "Fantastic Mr. Fox" director Anderson - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Horror film director Craven - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Montgomery of jazz - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Royal Tenenbaums" director Anderson - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Unseld of the NBA - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Film director Craven - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Guitarist Montgomery - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Basketball Hall of Famer Unseld - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Filmmaker Craven - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Bentley of "American Beauty" - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Filmmaker Anderson - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Guitar great Montgomery - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Horror maven Craven - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• "Moonrise Kingdom" director Anderson - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Director Craven or Anderson - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• NBA great Unseld - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Actor Studi - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Craven of horror - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Craven of horror films - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Film director Anderson - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Jazz great Montgomery - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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• Capote nickname - TRU, used 128 times
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