___ ray
The crossword clue "___ ray" is answered by MANTA, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MANTA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MANTA answer page.
Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for MANTA
Every other clue in this collection answered by MANTA, most used first.
- Devilfish - used 82 times, most recently in 2023
- Tropical ray - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of ray - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Large ray - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Big ray - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Horse blanket - used 14 times, most recently in 2011
- Devil ray - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Type of ray - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Powerful ray - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Sea ray - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Ray of the tropics - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Skate's cousin - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Skate's kin - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Underwater ray - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Ray - SKATE, used 45 times
- Kind of ray - GAMMA, used 21 times
- Pacific ray - SKATE, used 9 times
- Ultraviolet ray absorber - OZONE, used 9 times
- Type of ray - GAMMA, used 8 times
- Foxx of "Ray" - JAMIE, used 6 times
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