Dangerous snake
The crossword clue "Dangerous snake" is answered by ADDER, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ADDER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADDER answer page.
Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- RATTLER (2 uses in xd)
- MOCCASIN (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ADDER
Every other clue in this collection answered by ADDER, most used first.
- Venomous snake - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Venomous viper - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Viper - used 37 times, most recently in 2013
- European viper - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Snake - used 28 times, most recently in 1998
- Calculating snake? - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
- Abacus user - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Milk snake - used 14 times, most recently in 2004
- Common viper - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Poisonous snake - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Puff ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Summer - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Deadly viper - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Puff ___ (snake) - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Calculator, at times - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Deadly snake - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Hooded snake - COBRA, used 90 times
- Snake charmer's snake - COBRA, used 44 times
- Snake poison - VENOM, used 39 times
- Dangerous gas - RADON, used 32 times
- Less dangerous - SAFER, used 32 times
- Dangerous bacteria - ECOLI, used 29 times
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