Black: Poet.

The answer

EBON

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EBON answer page.

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1968; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EBON

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

• Black - used 159 times, most recently in 2018
• Black, in verse - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• Black, in poetry - used 62 times, most recently in 2024
• Black, poetically - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Dark. - used 43 times, most recently in 2004
• Black, to Blake - used 40 times, most recently in 2015
• Black, to a bard - used 34 times, most recently in 2019
• Deep black - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
• Black, to bards - used 29 times, most recently in 2020
• Black, to Byron - used 23 times, most recently in 2016
• Black, to poets - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Bard's black - used 21 times, most recently in 2014
• Dark, poetically - used 19 times, most recently in 2019
• Inky - used 19 times, most recently in 2005
• Poetic black - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Black, in poesy - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
• Jet - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Black, to a poet - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Black, in a sonnet - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Dark black - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Dark, in verse - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Raven-colored, to Poe - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Very dark. - used 8 times, most recently in 1976
• Deep black, in poetry - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Extremely dark - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Lustrous black - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Poet's black - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Black, as piano keys - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Dark, to Donne - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Jet black - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Poet Teasdale - SARA, used 285 times
• Black-and-white cookie - OREO, used 272 times
• Poet Pound - EZRA, used 239 times
• Roman poet - OVID, used 146 times
• "Metamorphoses" poet - OVID, used 136 times
• Poet St. Vincent Millay - EDNA, used 131 times

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