Subtle suggestion
The crossword clue "Subtle suggestion" is answered by HINT, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. 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
HINT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HINT answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HINT
Every other clue in this collection answered by HINT, most used first.
- Clue - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
- Suggestion - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Inkling - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
- Intimation - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Helpful clue - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Helpful suggestion - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Help for the stumped - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Intimate - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Trace - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Help for the puzzled - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Insinuate - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Pointer - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- "Getting warmer," e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Tip - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Bit of help - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Nudge - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Cue - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
- Helpful tip - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Slight amount - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Help for a stumped solver - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Helpful information - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Indirect suggestion - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Small clue - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Something dropped - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Suggest - used 6 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.
- Subtle glow - AURA, used 80 times
- Subtle emanation - AURA, used 30 times
- Subtle summons - PSST, used 25 times
- Subtle "Over here!" - PSST, used 24 times
- Subtle quality - AURA, used 22 times
- Subtle attention-getter - PSST, used 21 times
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