Backstreet
The crossword clue "Backstreet" is answered by ALLEY, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ALLEY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALLEY answer page.
Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for ALLEY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALLEY, most used first.
- Back street - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Bowling venue - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Bowling lane - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Narrow street - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Actress Kirstie - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- Strike zone? - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Bowler's hangout - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Bowling site - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of a tennis court - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Kind of cat - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
- Tin Pan ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Where you can hear pins drop - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Cat's hangout - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Place to bowl - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Strike site - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Back way - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Common trash can site - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Place for pins - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Strike setting - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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- Once more - AGAIN, used 336 times
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