Strikingly unusual
The crossword clue "Strikingly unusual" is answered by EXOTIC, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1969. 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
EXOTIC
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EXOTIC answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EXOTIC
Every other clue in this collection answered by EXOTIC, most used first.
- Foreign. - used 12 times, most recently in 2006
- Strangely different - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Strikingly strange - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Not native - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Most unusual - RAREST, used 31 times
- Most unusual - ODDEST, used 20 times
- Not unusual - NORMAL, used 7 times
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