Kind of artery
The crossword clue "Kind of artery" is answered by ILIAC, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ILIAC
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ILIAC answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1982. 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.
- CORONARY (3 uses in xd)
- THORACIC (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ILIAC
Every other clue in this collection answered by ILIAC, most used first.
- Of a pelvic bone - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Hipbone-related - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Pelvis-related - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Of the hipbone - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- "Sacro" addition - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Sacro-___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Sacro attachment - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Kind of artery or vein - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Of the pelvis - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Sacro extension - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- "Sacro" follower - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Main artery - AORTA, used 220 times
- Major artery - AORTA, used 132 times
- Kind of acid - AMINO, used 116 times
- Kind of committee - ADHOC, used 102 times
- Kind of wave - TIDAL, used 74 times
- Kind of energy - SOLAR, used 67 times
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