Neither vegetable nor mineral

The answer

ANIMAL

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANIMAL answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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Every other clue in this collection answered by ANIMAL, most used first.

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• Kind of magnetism - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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.

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• Root vegetable - TURNIP, used 16 times
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• Root vegetable - RADISH, used 6 times

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