Ink stain
The crossword clue "Ink stain" is answered by BLOT, a 4-letter entry. Used 65 times across 27 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
BLOT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLOT answer page.
Used 65 times across 27 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 13 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.
- SMUDGE (3 uses in xd)
- BLOTCH (1 uses in xd)
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