Fire starter
The crossword clue "Fire starter" is answered by FLINT, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLINT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLINT answer page.
Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FLINT
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- Michigan city - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Spark producer - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
- Lighter igniter - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Lighter part - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Fire-starting rock - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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- Fire-setting crime - ARSON, used 42 times
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