Protected inlet
The crossword clue "Protected inlet" is answered by COVE, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1996. 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
COVE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COVE answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for COVE
Every other clue in this collection answered by COVE, most used first.
- Inlet - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Sheltered bay - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Sheltered inlet - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Small bay - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Place to put in - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Sheltered nook - used 14 times, most recently in 2008
- Sheltered spot - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Shoreline recess - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Bay - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Coastal inlet - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Small inlet - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Shoreline shelter - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Cabot ___ ("Murder, She Wrote" setting) - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Shoreline indentation - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Safe harbor - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Small sheltered bay - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Protected from the wind - ALEE, used 36 times
- Protected, at sea - ALEE, used 29 times
- Protected - SAFE, used 25 times
- On the protected side - ALEE, used 24 times
- Protected, nautically - ALEE, used 14 times
- Protected, in a way - ALEE, used 12 times
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