Grammar essentially a barrier, monarch for one abandoned Japanese Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Grammar essentially a barrier, monarch for one abandoned Japanese featured in Times Cryptic puzzle on January 21, 2026. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 14 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is MADAMBUTTERFLY.

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% MADAMBUTTERFLY Grammar essentially a barrier, monarch for one abandoned Japanese (14) The Times Cryptic Jan 21, 2026
6% EMPEROR Japanese monarch (7) Commuter Jan 10, 2026
5% USAGE Grammar topic (5) Eugene Sheffer Jan 2, 2026
5% TENSE Grammar subject (5) Universal Dec 31, 2025
5% PLURAL More than one, in grammar (6) Puzzler Backwords Dec 22, 2025
4% DAM River barrier (3)
4% PROOFREADER Person reviewing spelling and grammar (11) Newsday Jan 19, 2026
4% DERELICT Abandoned (8) The Telegraph Quick Jan 16, 2026
4% COURT Monarch's entourage (5) Puzzler Backwords Jan 15, 2026
4% BLOCKSOFF Places barriers on, say (9) Wall Street Journal Jan 15, 2026

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