Can you name the common 4-Letter answers found in crosswords?

Hint	Answer
Flowering succulent often used for skin soothing
Captain Hook's right hand man
Great lake west of Ontario
Rick's love in 'Casablanca'
A type of margarine spread
Title character from 1997 Peter Fonda movie
Fencing weapon; french for 'sword'
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin (nee O'Neill)
Poker pot starter
Herman Melville's second novel, 1847
'Moby-Dick' captain
'Othello' villain
Double reed wind instrument
Capital of Norway
Queens stadium of the Mets (1964 to 2008)

Hint	Answer
Chocolate Cookie with white lard or cream filling
Nick and Nora's dog, from 'The Thin Man'
River of northwest Ireland
Largest species of dolphin; killer whale
Adam and Eve paradise
Musical piece for one voice
Newspaper humorist Bombeck
Urban region and river in western Germany
Dutch cheese w/red parafin wax
Islamic priest or mosque leader
Irish for the island of Ireland
Court sport; Jai ___
Russian supreme leader
Strummed stringed musical instrument
Jesus' cross inscription acronym

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4 Letter Answers Quiz

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Published: June 30th, 2009
Category: Language
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Tags: Letter Quizzes, found, 4-letter, crossword, common

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	jryyyan:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 04:45 GMT	2 points
	strange topic. i like it.

	RedLIon:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 04:49 GMT	22 points
	For the strummed stringed musical instrument - Lute has to be accepted. It fills the criteria and it's four letters. case closed.

	Babomomebeo:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	4 points
	Other common answers I've seen are the French region "St. Lo" and Orinoco Flow singer "Enya." Interesting concept for a quiz!

	tom:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	2 points
	nice and fun. a lot of these remind me of the clues in the daily crossword.

	Kicking222:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	5 points
	Great idea. I looooove me some crossword puzzles, and I definitely see a lot of these all the time. I kept coming up with "lute" for the musical instrument (I'm not sure if a lute is strummed or not), but I finally thought of it. There were a couple others that I missed and definitely should not have (damn you, Oona!), but i was just happy to see something like this.

	JohnJF:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 04:52 GMT	46 points
	I never really thought of the filling of an Oreo as "lard" before. I now have some serious thinking to do...

	Kicking222:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT	6 points
	Also, I think "erne" would be better if the clue was about the river and the type of eagle- I feel as if I see that one in reference to the latter more often than I see it in reference to the former. Still, it's an awesome quiz, and I'm just nitpicking.

	cmkeller:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	9 points
	Maybe Oreos once contained lard, but they certainly don't any longer - they have kosher certification.

	kyah:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	-4 points
	Can't believe I missed Oreo. Took forever to spell Isla too. ^^

	okenter:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:05 GMT	28 points
	Would a SOLO also fit the definition, "musical piece for one voice"?

	maniacalclown:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:11 GMT	15 points
	I think "solo" actually fits the clue better since an aria can only be in an opera.

	LightningWombat:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	4 points
	I think the Herman Melville one should say 1847...he had been dead for 50 years in 1947.

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	sporcloid:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:21 GMT	6 points
	After five years of searching used book stores, I finally found a copy of Omoo last month...maybe I should find a different hobby.

	babybluesteel:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	6 points
	White lard filling? O_o Looks like I'm gonna have my milk without cookies.

	Eric LeVasseur:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	25 points
	CZAR should be an alternate answer for TSAR

	bean:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	4 points
	Who else mistyped the Great Lake and got the Irish one...??

	steeltown:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT	6 points
	@debbiedoesnothin--- I hope damn would be accepted as well as dang.

	mjenks:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:37 GMT	4 points
	@Eric LeVasseur: Yeah, when did we decide to no longer spell "Tsar" like "Czar"? I realize that both have been acceptable for a long time, but it seems as though "Czar" has fallen away in the past ten years or so (which is odd, given it's derivation and all).

	NoVan:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:42 GMT	4 points
	Thanks to the "Historical City Populations" quiz for "Ruhr".

	jamesj0324:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:43 GMT	-4 points
	I managed to get one by accident....mispelled erie and got eire!

	jessicahope85:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 05:49 GMT	0 points
	the word "lard" makes oresos sound gross

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	shawnoc:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT	-1 points
	Too much time for this one. Great quiz otherwise.

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	tamazin:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 06:18 GMT	13 points
	holy vowels

	NoVan:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 06:26 GMT	11 points
	...batman

	orcrush:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 06:27 GMT	9 points
	How was Asta from the Thin Man not on this quiz? That is seemingly in every crossword puzzle

	mouserie:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 06:51 GMT	9 points
	I'm surprised Ella didn't turn up in this quiz. It seems like every crossword I do has "Jazzy Fitzgerald" or "Queen of Jazz" as a clue.

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	fatbeard:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 07:38 GMT	3 points
	not sure how long it would've taken me to get lyre, but thank you for accepting bass. Also, some quite obscue answers in here, but I love the diverse spread of questions

	JimKatz:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 07:52 GMT	24 points
	I've never been shown any evidence that jai alai exists outside of crosswords.

	Fongolia:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 07:58 GMT	10 points
	As someone else partly mentioned, "sea eagle" is the clue I most often associate with erne

	Peanut:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 10:01 GMT	5 points
	Oh dear god I feel dirty... when asked for a type of margarine spread with 4 letters my first attempt was 'lube'

	ruth:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 10:41 GMT	7 points
	please excuse my ignorance, but what is INRI?

	chambers:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 10:56 GMT	2 points
	nice quiz. there is a german river called the 'erft' which has a region named after it.

	Ireland:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 11:09 GMT	3 points
	The river in Northwest Ireland one was very tough I'm from Ireland and I didn't even get it. Don't know how anyone from outside Ireland could have got it!!

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	Bethannie:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 11:23 GMT	10 points
	ruth - INRI stands for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews (in latin, there is no 'j' so Jesus and Jerusalem are spelled with an i....and the r is for Rex, for king)

	PuzzleGirl:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 11:44 GMT	5 points
	In the major newspapers, TSAR shows up about four times more than CZAR.