Answer: PAPA
PAPA is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 274 times.
Referring Clues:
- ___ Bear
- One of the Three Bears
- Bear of literature
- Madonna's "___ Don't Preach"
- Perry Como's "___ Loves Mambo"
- Haydn's sobriquet
- Tot's cry
- A Bear
- John Paul, e.g., to the Italians
- Hemingway's handle
- Family man
- Bishop of Roma
- Family pillar
- Mate of 1-Across
- Daddy
- Role model for a lad
- Mama's partner
- Father
- One wearing the pants in the family?
- One-fourth of a 60's group
- Dad
- Storybook bear
- "___ Was a Rollin' Stone"
- Hemingway sobriquet
- "Come to ___"
- Sobriquet for Haydn
- Term of affection for 37-Across
- Hemingway nickname
- Haiti's ___ Doc
- Sobriquet for singer John Phillips
- P, in a phonetic alphabet
- Nickname for Hemingway
- ___ John's (Domino's competitor)
- Haydn's epithet
- "___ Don't Preach" (#1 hit for Madonna)
- "___ Don't Preach" (1986 Madonna chart-topper)
- "___ Loves Mambo" (Perry Como song)
- Bear whose porridge was too hot
- Bear, in a fairy tale
- Biggest of the three bears
- ___ oom mow mow (doo-wop song lyrics)
- Mama's mate
- Quarter of a '60s pop quartet
- Hemingway or Haydn
- Bearded Smurf
- Ernest Hemingway's nickname
- Hemingway handle
- Denny Doherty, on stage
- John Phillips or Denny Doherty, on stage
- One of the Smurfs
- Biggest of three bears
- Hemingway's moniker
- Bear of a tale
- Nickname for Hemingway or Haydn
- Bear whose chair was too hard
- With 49-Down, Haiti's President for Life, familiarly
- "___ Don't Preach" (Madonna hit)
- Bear in the Goldilocks story
- One of the Berenstain Bears
- Smurf with a white beard
- Sobriquet for Hemingway
- ___ John's (pizza chain)
- "___ Was a Rollin' Stone" (#1 hit for the Temptations)
- "___ Loves Mambo" (Perry Como hit)
- Smurf with a beard
- Mama's man
- Haydn sobriquet
- Bear with a hard chair
- Nickname of Margaux and Mariel's grandfather
- Literary sobriquet
- Smurf elder
- Storied bear
- Bear in a kid's tale
- Smurf patriarch
- P, in radio lingo
- One of the bears
- Mama's spouse
- Haydn nickname
- Largest of the Three Bears
- Family nickname
- One of a storied trio
- Three Bears patriarch
- Smurf leader
- Bear with a big chair
- ''___ Was a Rollin' Stone''
- Fairy-tale bear
- Haydn's handle
- What a junior might call a senior
- 542-year-old Smurf
- He was a rolling stone in song
- He was a rollin' stone
- One of three bears
- ''___ Was a Rollin' Stone'' (1972 hit)
- Famous bear
- A Smurf
- Big-chair bear
- Bear name
- "___ Was a Rollin' Stone" (1972 hit)
- One of Goldilocks' victims
- Madonna begged him not to preach
- Mama loves him
- Biggest bear, of three
- One bear
- Joe, to Ted
- One-fourth of a '60s pop group
- Bear or Hemingway
- Tevye, to Hodel
- Family member, familiarly
- Bear whose bed was too hard
- Nickname for Haydn
- "___ Loves Mambo"
- Baby Bear's dad
- "Come to ___!"
- With 10-Across, sobriquet for Bill O'Reilly used by 39-Across
- Bear with too-hot porridge
- Nickname for Joseph Haydn
- Haydn or Hemingway
- Streisand song addressee
- Young boxers
- Bear in a tale
- The family guy
- Father figure
- Person honored in this puzzle
- Smurf who wore red clothes
- Parent
- With 39 Across, Prime Minister St Laurent
- Bear with a hard bed
- Senior Smurf
- First bear to detect Goldilocks's intrusion
- "___, Can You Hear Me?": song from "Yentl"
- Eddie Fisher's "Oh! My ___"
- Elderly Smurf
- ___ Roach ("Scars" band)
- The old man
- Oscar-Quebec go-between
- Mate for Mama
- One of a bear trio
- Hemingway moniker
- Heming-way nickname
- Mama's other half
- Proud one
- Mama's main man
- Denny Doherty or John Phillips, in a '60s singing group
- Husband of mama
- Household moniker
- Literary nickname
- Family fellow
- Biggest of the Bears
- Oldest Smurf
- With 46-Across his porridge was too hot ,
- Hemingway's nickname
- Respected Smurf
- Letter after Oscar
- Smurfette's old man
- Dear old dad
- The bear with the hard bed
- Old man
- Story book bear
- "___ Was a Rollin' Stone": Temptations hit
- Quebec preceder, to pilots
- Pop
- One of the 44 Across
- He's my daddy
- Male family figure
- Not mama
- Dada
- Haiti's ______ Doc Duvalier
- Bear with the big chair
- Title for conservative pizza magnate John Schnatter
- Family guy
- 41-Down's mate
- Member of a '60s quartet
- Nickname in the family
- Mama's love
- "___ Don't Preach" (#1 Madonna hit)
- Smurf in red
- Haydn's nickname
- ___ John's
- It comes between Oscar and Quebec in the phonetic alphabet
- Mama's husband
- Guy in the NATO phonetic alphabet
- June honoree
- Mama's guy
- Hemingway, for one
- Address of many pizzerias?
- Kid-lit bear
- Judson Laire on "Mama"
- Nickname of Ernest Hemingway
- Famous Bear?
- Sobriquet for food-industry VIP John Schnatter
- Vincent Gardenia, to Cher, in Moonstruck
- *___ John's
- One of three fairy-tale bears
- Leader of the Smurfs
- Bear whose bed was too hard for Goldilocks
- A bear encountered by Goldilocks
- Mama's mate, often
- Bear with a hard bed and chair
- The bearded Smurf
- Rollin' stone, in a Motown classic
- Bear whose chair Goldilocks tries first
- "Goldilocks" bear with the hardest bed
- Man of the house
- Fatherly nickname
- Pizza maker John Schnatter's nickname
- Oscar follower, in communications
- With 57-Across, storied hot-porridge eater
- "Come to ___!" (gambler's cry)
- Who is told "don't preach," in a Madonna hit
- "___ Was a Rollin' Stone" (Temptations hit)
- 28-Across alternative
- Pizza's John?
- Smurf with a red hat
- Family member, endearingly
- Daddy alternative
- ___ John
- Porridge-eating bear
- Family member in NATO's phonetic alphabet
- Bear with a too-hard chair
- Bear with a too-hard bed
- ___ John's Pizza
- With 11-Down, furry fairy-tale father
- Biggest bear in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
- Bear with a bed that was too hard
- Nickname for Dad
- Mate for a mama
- Bear with the too-hard bed
- Another nickname for Dad
- Nickname for dad's partner, perhaps
- Tevye, to Tzeitel
- Nickname for a father
- Family guy's nickname
- Bear with hot porridge
- Father's nickname
- Three Bears male
- Oscar follower, in the NATO alphabet
- Letter before Quebec in the NATO alphabet
- Owner of the first bed that Goldilocks tested
- Father's Day VIP
- Family member in the NATO phonetic alphabet
- Fairy tale bear with a hard bed
- Word before "Bear" or "Smurf"
- Guy in the NATO alphabet
- Letter between Oscar and Quebec
- Follower of Oscar in the NATO alphabet
- Fairy tale bear
- "___, Can You Hear Me?": "Yentl" song
- Smurf with red pants
- "Daddy & ___" (2002 documentary)
- Smurf with a red cap
- Another name for Dad
- Family member that's also a letter in the NATO alphabet
- ___ Smurf
- 546-year-old Smurf
- Nickname for dad or for dad's dad
- Oscar, ___, Quebec: NATO sequence
- Gramps alternative
- Partner for a mama
- Bear whose porridge was too hot for Goldilocks
- Spanish for potato
- "Old man"
- One of three bears in a fairy tale
- Bear with a too-big chair
- Smurf with a white beard and red cap
- Grandad's nickname
- Potato, in Spanish
- Certain Bear or Smurf
- Fairy-tale bear with the biggest chair
- Bear with a hard bed and hot porridge
- P, in the NATO alphabet
- Nickname for Haydn or Hemingway
- Owner of a bed deemed too hard
- Fairy-tale bear with a big chair
- He was a "rollin' stone," in a Motown classic
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 05, 2025
- New York Times - September 08, 2025
- USA Today - August 08, 2025
- LA Times - July 16, 2025
- LA Times - July 08, 2025
- New York Times - June 30, 2025
- LA Times - June 22, 2025
- New York Times - June 12, 2025
- New York Times - June 02, 2025
- LA Times - May 29, 2025
- USA Today - May 08, 2025
- New York Times - April 23, 2025
- LA Times - April 20, 2025
- USA Today - April 03, 2025
- LA Times - March 12, 2025
- LA Times - January 28, 2025
- LA Times - January 20, 2025
- LA Times - January 01, 2025
- USA Today - December 18, 2024
- USA Today - December 04, 2024
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