Single Letter Indicators

This table contains single letter indicators which are not in the abbreviation or letter selection lists. The great majority of ways to indicate a single letter in a cryptic wordplay can be found in one of these three lists.

The list below can be sorted alphabetically on Indicator (default) or Letter Indicated, in either ascending (default) or descending sequence. The Search box allows full and partial searching of the first two columns in the list.

Date last modified: 04/09/24
Recent changes: (04/09/24) Added egg, round (shape of letter O)

Indicator	Alternative Forms	Letter Indicated	Type	Explanation
alpha		A	Standard	Radio communications
article		A	Standard
axis	co-ordinate	X	Standard	Graphs
axis	co-ordinate	Y	Standard	Graphs
axis	co-ordinate	Z	Standard	Graphs
bee		B	Standard	Name of letter
bend		S	Standard
bend		U	Standard
bend		Z	Standard
bravo		B	Standard	Radio communications
by	times	X	Standard	Multiplication symbol
canine letter		R	Advanced	See Chambers
Charlie		C	Standard	Radio communications
circular letter		O	Standard
cross		X	Standard
cue		Q	Standard	Name of letter
curve		J	Advanced	J-curve
Dee		D	Standard	Name of letter
delta		D	Standard	Radio communications
duck	blob	O	Standard
echo		E	Standard	Radio communications
egg		O	Standard
ego	self/first person	I	Standard
Emma		M	Advanced	Signalling
ex		X	Standard	Name of letter
factor		X	Standard
fifth		V	Standard	Roman ordinal
fifty	50	L	Standard	Roman numeral
first		I	Standard	Roman ordinal
first class	top grade	A	Standard
five	5	V	Standard	Roman numeral
five hundred	500	D	Standard	Roman numeral
foxtrot		F	Standard	Radio communications
gee		G	Standard	Name of letter
golf		G	Standard	Radio communications
honour		J	Advanced	Cards
honour		Q	Advanced	Cards
honour		K	Advanced	Cards
honour		A	Advanced	Cards
horseshoe		H	Standard
hotel		H	Standard	Radio communications
hundred	100/ton/century	C	Standard	Roman numeral
India		I	Standard	Radio communications
jay		J	Standard	Name of letter
Juliet		J	Standard	Radio communications
junction		T	Standard
Kay		K	Standard	Name of letter
kilo		K	Standard	Radio communications
kiss		X	Standard
Lima		L	Standard	Radio communications
loud		F	Standard	Forte
love	zip/zero/nothing/nil	O	Standard
Mike		M	Standard	Radio communications
notch		V	Standard
November		N	Standard	Radio communications
one		A	Standard
one		I	Standard	Roman numeral
Oscar		O	Standard	Radio communications
papa		P	Standard	Radio communications
pee		P	Standard	Name of letter
pen		J	Advanced	J-pen
per		A	Standard	For each
point		N	Standard
point		E	Standard
point		S	Standard
point		W	Standard
pole		N	Standard
pole		S	Standard
posh	upper class	U	Standard
programming language		C	Standard
Quebec		Q	Standard	Radio communications
Romeo		R	Standard	Radio communications
round		O	Standard
second class	second rate	B	Standard
see		C	Standard	Name of letter
shape of console		S	Advanced	See Chambers
sierra		S	Standard	Radio communications
soft	softly	P	Standard	Piano
spymaster		M	Standard	James Bond
tango		T	Standard	Radio communications
tee		T	Standard	Name of letter
ten	10	X	Standard	Roman numeral
tenth		X	Standard	Roman ordinal
thousand	1000	M	Standard	Roman numeral
turn		U	Standard
uniform		U	Standard	Radio communications
unknown	variable	X	Standard	Algebra
unknown	variable	Y	Standard	Algebra
unknown	variable	Z	Standard	Algebra
victor		V	Standard	Radio communications
vote		X	Standard
whiskey		W	Standard	Radio communications
wrong answer		X	Standard
Yankee		Y	Standard	Radio communications
yes	indeed	I	Advanced	Same as aye
Zulu		Z	Standard	Radio communications