It was once French Sudan
The crossword clue "It was once French Sudan" is answered by MALI, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
MALI
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MALI answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MALI
Every other clue in this collection answered by MALI, most used first.
- Niger neighbor - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
- French Sudan, today - used 61 times, most recently in 2023
- Timbuktu's country - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Timbuktu's land - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Bamako's country - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Algeria neighbor - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Bamako's land - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Bamako is its capital - used 24 times, most recently in 2015
- African nation - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- African republic - used 21 times, most recently in 2012
- Landlocked African nation - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- French Sudan, now - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Neighbor of Algeria - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Neighbor of Niger - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Niger's neighbor - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- West African nation - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Burkina Faso neighbor - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Landlocked African country - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Timbuktu's nation - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- African land. - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Its capital is Bamako - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- African country - used 12 times, most recently in 2006
- Algeria's neighbor - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- West African country - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- West African republic - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Where Timbuktu is - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Saharan nation - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
- Senegal neighbor - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ivory Coast neighbor - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- A neighbor of Niger - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Neighbor of Senegal - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Sudanese Republic, now - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Mauritania neighbor - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Neighbor of Mauritania - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
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- "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
- French 101 verb - ETRE, used 220 times
- Thailand, once - SIAM, used 192 times
- Once, once - ERST, used 177 times
- French cleric - ABBE, used 172 times
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