Curly-tailed Japanese dog
The crossword clue "Curly-tailed Japanese dog" is answered by AKITA, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AKITA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AKITA answer page.
Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AKITA
Every other clue in this collection answered by AKITA, most used first.
- Japanese dog - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Japanese dog breed - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Curly-tailed dog - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Muscular dog - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Japanese canine - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Muscular Japanese dog - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Japanese breed - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Watchdog breed - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Dog from Japan - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Powerful Japanese dog - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tough watchdog - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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