Answer: CHIMP
CHIMP is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 35 times.
Referring Clues:
- Early rocket traveler
 - Sign language communicator, maybe
 - Early astronaut
 - Early "astronaut"
 - Cheeta, in "Tarzan" films
 - J. Fred Muggs was one
 - Zoo favorite
 - '50s "Today Show" regular J. Fred Muggs, for one
 - Zoo attraction
 - Bonzo, for one
 - Lab primate
 - Expressive ape, for short
 - Cheetah, for one
 - Small ape, for short
 - Ape, for short
 - Zoo Primate
 - Enos or Ham of NASA
 - Jane Goodall subject
 - Tarzan's Cheeta, for one
 - Congo River area denizen
 - Primate that likes to solve puzzles
 - Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," for one
 - Animal that can learn limited sign language
 - Bonzo, in a '51 film
 - Primate
 - Orang's kin
 - Congo jungle denizen
 - Zoo ape
 - Pioneer in space
 - Real head-scratcher, informally?
 - Jungle primate, for short
 - First hominid in space
 - Type of ape
 - "___ Crazy" (HBO docuseries about an ape owner)
 - Bonobo relative
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - April 18, 2025
 - New York Times - April 13, 2025
 - USA Today - January 08, 2025
 - New York Times - September 15, 2024
 - USA Today - May 17, 2022
 - LA Times - January 07, 2022
 - Netword - October 14, 2019
 - Netword - May 26, 2019
 - Universal - February 24, 2019
 - New York Times - January 03, 2018
 - King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - September 03, 2017
 - LA Times - August 08, 2017
 - LA Times - November 24, 2016
 - LA Times - September 17, 2016
 - LA Times - November 16, 2014
 - LA Times - October 15, 2014
 - LA Times - September 19, 2014
 - Netword - July 06, 2014
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 26, 2013
 - LA Times - July 22, 2012
 
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