"Was it a cat __?" (palindrome)

The answer

ISAW

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ISAW

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

• Caesar's "vidi" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Part of Caesar's boast - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• What "vidi" means. - used 16 times, most recently in 2008
• "Vidi" - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ Her Standing There" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ Mommy kissing ... " - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Vidi, translated - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• "___ three ships . . . " - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• "Vidi," in English - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "__ what you did!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Caesarean section? - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Middle of a Caesar boast - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• "The Last Time ___ Paris" - 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.

• "That was close!" - PHEW, used 117 times
• Cat call - MEOW, used 114 times
• "When I was ___ . . . " - ALAD, used 96 times
• Tailless cat - MANX, used 74 times
• Was aware of - KNEW, used 70 times
• Was in debt - OWED, used 69 times

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