Kind of knife
The crossword clue "Kind of knife" is answered by BOWIE, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BOWIE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOWIE answer page.
Used 18 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BOWIE
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