Air rifle pellets
The crossword clue "Air rifle pellets" is answered by BBS, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BBS
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BBS answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- LEADSHOT (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for BBS
Every other clue in this collection answered by BBS, most used first.
- Air rifle ammo - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Small ammo - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Air gun ammo - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Small shot - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Air gun pellets - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Not-so-big shot - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Cheap shot? - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- No big shot? - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Small pellets - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Gun pellets - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Small shots - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Some ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Some shot - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Tiny ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Toy gun ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Red Ryder ammo - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Ammo for a Red Ryder - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- King and others - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Little shots - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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- Air-quality org. - EPA, used 51 times
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