Inky smear
The crossword clue "Inky smear" is answered by BLOT, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BLOT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLOT answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BLOT
Every other clue in this collection answered by BLOT, most used first.
- Ink stain - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Stain - used 43 times, most recently in 2024
- Ink smudge - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Rorschach image - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Smudge - used 25 times, most recently in 2022
- Inky stain - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Rorschach test feature - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Dark mark - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Ink smear - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Rorschach test image - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Moral flaw - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Rorschach test component - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Black mark - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Ink mishap - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Ink spot - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Soak up - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Dab dry - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Reputation blemish - used 6 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.
- Smear - DAUB, used 80 times
- Inky - EBON, used 19 times
- Smear (on) - DAUB, used 11 times
- Smear - BLUR, used 10 times
- Smear, as paint - DAUB, used 6 times
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