Pen end
The crossword clue "Pen end" is answered by NIB, a 3-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NIB
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIB answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 7 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.
Other clues for NIB
Every other clue in this collection answered by NIB, most used first.
- Pen point - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
- Pen tip - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Penpoint - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
- Beak - used 33 times, most recently in 2013
- Point - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Writing tip - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Tip of a pen - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Bird's beak - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Pen part - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Quill tip - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Writer's point? - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
- Point of a pen - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Point of writing - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Bill - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Tip for a writer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Pen's tip - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Business end of a pen - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Point of a quill pen - 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.
- Pen name - BIC, used 178 times
- Pen filler - INK, used 89 times
- Pen - STY, used 87 times
- Farm pen - STY, used 79 times
- West end? - ERN, used 59 times
- "It's the end of an ___" - ERA, used 42 times
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