Crossword clues - Answer
IAN
IAN is a 3-letter crossword answer with 19 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 1,173 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
IAN
IAN
3Letters
19Clues in collection
1,173Combined 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 IAN in this collection
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- Author Fleming - used 275 times across 50 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Actor McKellen - used 168 times across 35 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Writer Fleming - used 99 times across 31 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- 007 creator Fleming - used 71 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- "At Seventeen" singer Janis - used 66 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Golfer Woosnam - used 65 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Singer Janis - used 53 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Fleming - used 45 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 1999
- McKellen of "X-Men" - used 43 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Actor Holm - used 41 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Bond creator Fleming - used 39 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Scottish John - used 34 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- James Bond creator Fleming - used 30 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Actor McShane - used 29 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Novelist Fleming - used 26 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Swimmer Thorpe - used 24 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- James' creator - used 23 times across 10 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- "Atonement" author McEwan - used 21 times across 12 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- McKellen who played Gandalf - used 21 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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