Secret plot
The crossword clue "Secret plot" is answered by CABAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CABAL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CABAL answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CABAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by CABAL, most used first.
- Scheming group - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Plotting group - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Group of plotters - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Conspiracy - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
- Intrigue - used 23 times, most recently in 2007
- Junta - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
- Conspiratorial group - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Plot - used 19 times, most recently in 2011
- Intriguing group - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Conspiring group - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Junto. - used 10 times, most recently in 2001
- Band of schemers - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Group of conspirators - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- League of intrigue - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Plotters' group - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Coup group - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Scheming bunch - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Group of schemers - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Secret group - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Secret supply - STASH, used 132 times
- Secret meeting - TRYST, used 93 times
- Secret agents - SPIES, used 50 times
- Secret rendezvous - TRYST, used 50 times
- Wed in secret - ELOPE, used 41 times
- Secret stash - CACHE, used 35 times
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