Cartel city

The answer

CALI

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CALI answer page.

Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CALI

Every other clue in this collection answered by CALI, most used first.

• Colombian city - used 143 times, most recently in 2025
• Colombian metropolis - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• City in Colombia. - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
• City of Colombia - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• City southwest of Bogota - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• LL Cool J's "Going Back to ___" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• The Golden State, for short - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• City SW of Bogotá - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Left Coast state, informally - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• West Coast state, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Infamous Colombian city - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "Going Back to ___" (LL Cool J) - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• West Coast state, informally - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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