Brightly colored salamander
The crossword clue "Brightly colored salamander" is answered by NEWT, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NEWT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NEWT answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NEWT
Every other clue in this collection answered by NEWT, most used first.
- Salamander - used 164 times, most recently in 2026
- Small salamander - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
- Mr. Gingrich - used 41 times, most recently in 2023
- Semiaquatic salamander - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Small amphibian - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Triton - used 25 times, most recently in 1992
- Colorful salamander - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Politico Gingrich - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
- Grown-up eft - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Lizard look-alike - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Former Speaker Gingrich - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Little salamander - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Pond denizen - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Eft - used 9 times, most recently in 2001
- Witches' brew ingredient - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Pond critter - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Water-loving salamander - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Colorful amphibian - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Gingrich - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Mature eft - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Ex-Speaker Gingrich - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Former House Speaker Gingrich - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Slender amphibian - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Wetlands resident - used 6 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.
- Colored part of the eye - IRIS, used 87 times
- Colored eye part - IRIS, used 61 times
- Dull-colored - DRAB, used 54 times
- Colored - HUED, used 46 times
- Brightly colored fish - OPAH, used 45 times
- Colored - DYED, used 40 times
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