Puncture starter
The crossword clue "Puncture starter" is answered by ACU, a 3-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ACU
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ACU answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ACU
Every other clue in this collection answered by ACU, most used first.
- Prefix with puncture - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Prefix with pressure - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Prefix for puncture - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Puncture opening - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Puncture prefix - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Puncture preceder - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Needle: Prefix - used 8 times, most recently in 1977
- Needle: Comb. form. - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
- Pressure lead-in - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Prefix for pressure - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Prefix with "puncture" or "pressure" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Pressure prefix - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Cycle starter - UNI, used 60 times
- Cycle starter - TRI, used 58 times
- System starter - ECO, used 49 times
- Center starter - EPI, used 44 times
- Meal starter - OAT, used 41 times
- Ode title starter - TOA, used 33 times
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