Visitor from afar

The answer

ALIEN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALIEN answer page.

Used 38 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALIEN

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

• Extraterrestrial - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
• Strange - used 90 times, most recently in 2025
• Foreign - used 88 times, most recently in 2024
• Unfamiliar - used 59 times, most recently in 2025
• Completely unfamiliar - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Foreigner - used 40 times, most recently in 2017
• Sci-fi visitor - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Out of this world - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Little green man - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Green card holder - used 28 times, most recently in 2015
• UFO pilot - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Stranger - used 27 times, most recently in 2014
• Outlander - used 25 times, most recently in 2001
• Outsider - used 25 times, most recently in 2004
• Otherworldly - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Sci-fi being - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
• Visitor from outer space - used 22 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• It comes from the heart - AORTA, used 108 times
• Wonderland visitor - ALICE, used 105 times
• From the top - AGAIN, used 93 times
• Stay away from - AVOID, used 91 times
• Get away from - ELUDE, used 73 times
• Keep from happening - AVERT, used 73 times

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