African snakes

The answer

ASPS

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

Used 31 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 6 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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• MAMBAS (4 uses in xd)

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
• Nile serpents - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Egyptian vipers - used 31 times, most recently in 2025

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
• North African port - ORAN, used 46 times
• "The African Queen" screenwriter - AGEE, used 41 times
• "The African Queen" screenwriter James - AGEE, used 34 times
• African plant - ALOE, used 33 times
• African lily - ALOE, used 32 times

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