Dorsal bones.

The answer

ILIA

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

Used 17 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ILIUMS (1 uses in xd)
• SACRA (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ILIA

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

• Pelvic bones - used 259 times, most recently in 2025
• Hip bones - used 106 times, most recently in 2025
• Hipbones - used 72 times, most recently in 2021
• Figure skater Kulik - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Mozart's Trojan princess - used 20 times, most recently in 2014
• Pelvic parts - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Pelvis bones - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Upper pelvic bones - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Hipbone parts - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Pelvis parts - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
• Skater Kulik - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• Olympic skating champ Kulik - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Trojan princess of opera - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Mother of Romulus and Remus - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Olympic skater Kulik - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Pieces of pelvises - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Trojan princess of a Mozart opera - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Parts of pelvises - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Skating star Kulik - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Gold-medal skater Kulik - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Hip parts - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Hipbone sections - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Mother of Romulus - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Olympic figure skater Kulik - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Skating gold medalist Kulik - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Bones - OSSA, used 35 times
• Ankle bones - TALI, used 22 times
• Felt in one's bones - KNEW, used 12 times
• Bones: Lat. - OSSA, used 11 times
• Skull and Bones members - ELIS, used 10 times
• Bones - DICE, used 9 times

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