Part of Mao's name

The answer

TSE

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

Used 40 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TSE

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

• Mao ___-tung - used 389 times, most recently in 2026
• Lao-___ - used 99 times, most recently in 2024
• Half a fly - used 95 times, most recently in 2021
• Literary monogram - used 93 times, most recently in 2023
• "The Waste Land" monogram - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Mao follower? - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• China's Mao ___-tung - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Literary inits. - used 33 times, most recently in 2015
• "Cats" monogram - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• China's Lao-___ - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
• Philosopher Lao-___ - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Waste Land" poet's monogram - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Follower of Mao? - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Taoism founder Lao-___ - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Poetic monogram - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

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