Like cuttlefish defenses
The crossword clue "Like cuttlefish defenses" is answered by INKY, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
INKY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INKY answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 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.
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- Deep black - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
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- One of the Pac-Man ghosts - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Dark - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
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- 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
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