Light-blue ghost in Pac-Man

The answer

INKY

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

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for INKY

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

• Black - used 125 times, most recently in 2025
• Pitch-black - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Jet-black - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Black as night - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
• Very dark - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Deep black - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Like a squid's squirt - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Blue "Pac-Man" ghost - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Like cuttlefish defenses - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
• One of the Pac-Man ghosts - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Dark - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Atramentous - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Like an octopus's defense - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Pac-Man ghost - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Like a moonless night - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• One Pac-Man ghost - 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.

• Blue-pencil - EDIT, used 151 times
• Blue hue - AQUA, used 135 times
• Greenish blue - TEAL, used 130 times
• Elevator man - OTIS, used 123 times
• Give off, as light - EMIT, used 122 times
• Blue dye - ANIL, used 116 times

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