The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SERF , but the solution may also be VASSAL which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
One doing the lord's work? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SERF | 73 % | 4 |
| LIEGE | 9 % | 5 |
| VASSAL | 9 % | 6 |
| PEASANT | 9 % | 7 |
Why may VASSAL be the right solution?
The term "vassal" refers to a person who serves a lord or master. In this context, "One doing the lord’s work" is a play on words, suggesting that a vassal is someone who is carrying out the work or duties assigned to them by their lord.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: One doing the lord's work?
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- publish
- career
- collaborate
- recess
- respite
- idle
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Crossword Answer definitions
SERF noun- A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights
- A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe
- (strategy games) a worker unit
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SERF
- Feudal field hand
- Feudal servant
- Indentured one
- Feudal toiler
- Esne
- Lord's laborer
- He did the work of the lord
- Vassal
- Lord's subject
- Lowly worker
More clues leading to the result LIEGE
- Receiver of allegiance
- Loyal subject
- Feudal fellow
- City in Belgium
- Lord, to his subject
- Lord or vassal
- Feudal figure
- Vassal
- Feudal lord
- Hamlet, to Horatio
More clues leading to the result VASSAL
- Medieval menial
- Feudal subject
- Feudal figure
- Feudal bondman
- Feudal servant
- Feudal tenant
- Medieval tenant
- Erstwhile subordinate
- Servant of yore
- Lord's payer