"The Boot"
The crossword clue ""The Boot"" is answered by ITALY, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ITALY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ITALY answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 5 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.
- DISMISSAL (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ITALY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ITALY, most used first.
- Europe's "boot" - used 27 times, most recently in 2021
- Boot-shaped country - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Tuscany setting - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Po land - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
- San Marino surrounder - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Pisa place - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Rome's country - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- European boot? - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Rome's home - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Sicily's country - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Birthplace of the Renaissance - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- European nation - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Milan's land - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Boot-shaped European country - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Florence's land - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Milan's country - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- 2006 World Cup winner - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Country shaped like a boot - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- World Cup powerhouse - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Boot-shaped nation - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Naples's nation - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- "The boot of Europe" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Where the Po flows - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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- In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
- Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times
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