Dyeing plant
The crossword clue "Dyeing plant" is answered by ANIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1996. 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
ANIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANIL answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANIL, most used first.
- Indigo - used 221 times, most recently in 2020
- Blue dye - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
- Indigo plant - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Indigo source - used 50 times, most recently in 2021
- Deep blue - used 44 times, most recently in 2018
- Indigo dye - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Indigo dye source - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Blue dye source - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Dye plant - used 20 times, most recently in 2008
- Source of indigo - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- West Indian shrub. - used 16 times, most recently in 1986
- Deep blue dye - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Dyestuff - used 10 times, most recently in 1999
- Indigo shrub - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Indigo-yielding shrub - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Kapoor of "Slumdog Millionaire" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Dye. - used 7 times, most recently in 1979
- Blue shade - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Dye source - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Dye-yielding plant - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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