Muscular Japanese dog
The crossword clue "Muscular Japanese dog" is answered by AKITA, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 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 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 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.
- SHIBAINU (1 uses in xd)
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
- Curly-tailed Japanese dog - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Japanese canine - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- 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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