Clues for the word "BUTLER"
We've had 60 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 61 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on October 22, 2026.
Definition of butler
- n. - An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
Referring Clues
- Middle name of 7-Across
- Poet Samuel who wrote "Hudibras"
- Who often "did it" in a whodunit
- Lurch or Jeeves
- Mitchell hero of literature
- Suspect in many murder mysteries
- See 34-Across
- Film character who says "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"
- Estate door answerer
- Classic whodunit suspect
- Servant of a sort
- Gielgud's "Arthur" role
- Lurch or Jeeves, e.g.
- Popular suspect
- Well-mannered manor man
- Role in a drawing-room mystery
- Major-domo
- Alfred, at Wayne Manor
- 'GWTW' hero
- Culprit in a trite whodunit
- Estate-door answerer
- Indiana university
- See 16-Across
- Whodunit cliché
- Usual suspect?
- Manor minder
- Head of a household?
- Murder mystery staple
- Gable part
- Downton Abbey employee
- Jeeves, for one
- Manor worker
- Manservant
- Opposite of maid
- House servant
- Maid's counterpart
- Male domestic servant
- See 9
- Male servant
- Household servant
- Head male servant
- Non-PM (Cons) - a suspect in murder fiction
- Reporter on 6, perhaps, who saw what he shouldn't?
- Serviceman?
- Lord and servant
- Nevertheless left, accompanied by the Queen's servant
- Did he serve wine from Churchill's cabinet?
- Server's trouble, unfortunately forgetting round
- Whodunit suspect
- See 20
- Usual suspect?
- Master of social etiquette
- One of those who mind their manors
- Lurch, e.g.
- The usual suspect
- Gable role
- Profession of the protagonist Stevens in Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day"
- Chief manservant
- Alfred Pennyworth, to Bruce Wayne
- Oft-scrutinized employee in whodunits
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - October 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 07, 2025
- LA Times - September 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 30, 2023
- Family Time - February 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 02, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 19, 2018
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 23, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 10, 2017
- Universal - October 22, 2017
- Netword - May 11, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - April 26, 2017
- New York Times - December 04, 2016
- Family Time - May 29, 2016
- New York Times - April 28, 2016
- New York Times - February 20, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 28, 2015
- Universal - August 17, 2015
- Wall Street Journal - January 09, 2015
- Family Time - December 07, 2014
- Wall Street Journal - November 14, 2014
- LA Times - December 01, 2013
- LA Times - October 25, 2013
- Universal - December 21, 2012
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 03, 2011
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 10, 2011
- New York Times - June 10, 2011
- Family Time - April 17, 2011
- And in 31 more crossword puzzles...