Athena's shield
The crossword clue "Athena's shield" is answered by EGIS, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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EGIS
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Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for EGIS
Every other clue in this collection answered by EGIS, most used first.
- Sponsorship - used 126 times, most recently in 2010
- Protection - used 63 times, most recently in 2013
- Auspices - used 45 times, most recently in 2020
- Shield. - used 44 times, most recently in 1999
- Sponsorship: Var. - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
- Protection: Var. - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- Patronage - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Shield border - ORLE, used 45 times
- Boss on a shield - UMBO, used 18 times
- Boss of a shield. - UMBO, used 9 times
- Athena's half-brother - ARES, used 6 times
- Shield border, in heraldry - ORLE, used 6 times
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