Ink stains
The crossword clue "Ink stains" is answered by BLOTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BLOTS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLOTS answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BLOTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by BLOTS, most used first.
- Dries, in a way - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Kind of ink - INDIA, used 33 times
- Black-ink item - ASSET, used 29 times
- Black-ink entry - ASSET, used 25 times
- Red-ink entry - DEBIT, used 17 times
- Type of ink - INDIA, used 12 times
- Stains - SOILS, used 11 times
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