Hour and minute separator
The crossword clue "Hour and minute separator" is answered by COLON, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COLON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COLON answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for COLON
Every other clue in this collection answered by COLON, most used first.
- Punctuation mark - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
- Two-dot character - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Emoticon's eyes - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- "Eyes" in many emoticons - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Two-dot mark - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Two-dot punctuation - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- It comes right after the hour - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
- Two-dot punctuation mark - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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