On the back
The crossword clue "On the back" is answered by DORSAL, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DORSAL
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DORSAL answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DORSAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by DORSAL, most used first.
- Kind of fin - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Back fin - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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