Compass trace
The crossword clue "Compass trace" is answered by ARC, a 3-letter entry. Used 23 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ARC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARC answer page.
Used 23 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ARC
Every other clue in this collection answered by ARC, most used first.
- Rainbow shape - used 196 times, most recently in 2026
- Circle segment - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Curved line - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
- Curved path - used 113 times, most recently in 2026
- Joan of -- - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- Rainbow - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
- Curve - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- Pendulum path - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Circle section - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ de Triomphe - used 64 times, most recently in 2025
- Circle part - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
- Lob's path - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Pendulum's path - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Rainbow's shape - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of a circle - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Bow - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
- Eyebrow shape - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Trajectory - used 30 times, most recently in 2015
- Fly ball's path - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ de Triomphe (Paris landmark) - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Parenthesis, essentially - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Parenthesis shape - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Compass point. - ENE, used 222 times
- Compass dir. - ENE, used 175 times
- Compass dir. - SSE, used 161 times
- Compass point. - SSE, used 160 times
- Compass point. - NNE, used 142 times
- Compass point. - ESE, used 133 times
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