Magnified map detail

The answer

INSET

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INSET answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for INSET

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

• Map within a map - used 130 times, most recently in 2026
• Map feature - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Atlas feature - used 44 times, most recently in 2024
• Map detail - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Map in a map - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Miniature map - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Atlas enlargement - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Detail map - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Mini-map - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Atlas detail - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Map closeup - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Picture in a picture - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Atlas blowup - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Map part - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Alaska on a map, sometimes - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Atlas closeup - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Cartographic closeup - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Gore - used 8 times, most recently in 1988
• Map addition - used 8 times, most recently in 1998
• Map close-up - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Picture within a picture - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Map box - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Atlas extra - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Cartographic extra - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Map extra - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Map of Hawaii, often - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Picture in picture - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Smaller map - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• Map book - ATLAS, used 73 times
• Map collection - ATLAS, used 43 times
• Map division - STATE, used 24 times
• Map lines - ROADS, used 23 times
• Map ratio - SCALE, used 20 times
• Up, on a map - NORTH, used 18 times

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