Crossword clues - Answer
ERLE
ERLE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 21 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 1,312 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ERLE
ERLE
4Letters
21Clues in collection
1,312Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for ERLE in this collection
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- Perry's creator - used 332 times across 51 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- ___ Stanley Gardner - used 189 times across 44 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- First name in mysteries - used 94 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Author __ Stanley Gardner - used 84 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Gardner - used 68 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 1998
- Writer ___ Stanley Gardner - used 51 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Della's creator - used 49 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2015
- Author Gardner - used 48 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2014
- A Gardner - used 44 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2005
- Writer Gardner - used 40 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- First name in courtroom fiction - used 35 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2020
- Perry's penner - used 34 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2009
- Creator of Perry and Della - used 33 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- First name in whodunits - used 30 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Mystery writer ___ Stanley Gardner - used 30 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Gardner of mystery - used 29 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2022
- Agatha contemporary - used 28 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- Agatha's contemporary - used 26 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2008
- Contemporary of Agatha - used 23 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2017
- First name in mystery - used 23 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2017
- Man's name. - used 22 times across 12 distinct years, most recently in 1968
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