Antelope's playmate

The answer

DEER

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

Used 69 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DEER

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

• Bambi, for one - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Forest animal - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
• Woodland grazer - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Bambi, e.g. - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Glade grazer - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Bucks and does - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Whitetail. - used 30 times, most recently in 2013
• Stag or doe - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Venison source - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Antlered animal - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Doe or buck - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Does and bucks - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Doe or fawn - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Lots of bucks - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Doe or stag - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• A couple of bucks? - used 21 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.

• Profound - DEEP, used 297 times
• Sandwich shop - DELI, used 288 times
• Consider - DEEM, used 287 times
• Unit of force - DYNE, used 242 times
• Facts and figures - DATA, used 223 times
• Challenge - DARE, used 216 times

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