African serpents

The answer

ASPS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ASPS answer page.

Used 14 times across 11 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 clues for ASPS

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

• Vipers - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
• Egyptian cobras - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile reptiles - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Egyptian snakes - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile vipers - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Poisonous snakes - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Horned vipers - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile snakes - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Venomous vipers - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile biters - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Venomous snakes - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile serpents - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• African snakes - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Egyptian vipers - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Snakes - used 27 times, most recently in 2011
• Dangerous snakes - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Nile slitherers - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Pharaoh symbols - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Deadly snakes - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• Egyptian serpents - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Snakes in hieroglyphics - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Cobras - used 14 times, most recently in 2007
• "Raiders of the Lost Ark" snakes - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Serpents - used 13 times, most recently in 1995
• Egyptian slitherers - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Nile nippers - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
• Ophidians. - used 12 times, most recently in 1995
• Small vipers - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Some snakes - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Some vipers - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Once-sacred snakes - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Scary snakes - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Dangerous biters - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Egyptian biters - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Hieroglyphic snakes - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Cairo cobras - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Deadly biters - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• African cobras - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Hieroglyphic creatures - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Cold-blooded killers - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Egyptian reptiles - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Egyptian symbols. - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
• Egyptian symbols of royalty - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Hieroglyphic reptiles - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Nile hazards - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Nile menaces - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Reptiles - used 7 times, most recently in 1976
• Vile Nile creatures - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Deadly vipers - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Egyptian menaces - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Hieroglyphics snakes - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile cobras - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Some cobras - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• They strike along the Nile - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Dutch South African - BOER, used 74 times
• African fox - ASSE, used 70 times
• African antelope - ORYX, used 63 times
• North African port - ORAN, used 46 times
• African nation - CHAD, used 43 times
• "The African Queen" screenwriter - AGEE, used 41 times

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