Shoreline recess
The crossword clue "Shoreline recess" is answered by COVE, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 9 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 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- 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
- Protected inlet - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- 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.
- Church recess - APSE, used 253 times
- Cathedral recess - APSE, used 71 times
- Recess - NOOK, used 41 times
- Vaulted recess - APSE, used 40 times
- Semicircular recess - APSE, used 35 times
- Basilica recess - APSE, used 20 times
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