Knockoff

The answer

CLONE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLONE answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• FAKE (6 uses in xd)
• IMITATION (2 uses in xd)
• PHONY (2 uses in xd)
• REPLICA (2 uses in xd)
• ERSATZ (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for CLONE

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

• Exact copy - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Duplicate - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Genetic duplicate - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Genetic copy - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Exact duplicate - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Replicate - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Biological duplicate - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Carbon copy - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Dolly the sheep, e.g. - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Any "Jurassic Park" dinosaur - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Copy - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Make a copy of - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Genetic double - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Biological remake - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Replica - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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