Tip for a writer
The crossword clue "Tip for a writer" is answered by NIB, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
NIB
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIB answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 4 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 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
- Pen end - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Point of writing - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Bill - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- 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.
- For each - PER, used 391 times
- "For shame!" - TSK, used 208 times
- Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
- Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times
- Writer Rand - AYN, used 182 times
- "For __ a jolly good fellow..." - HES, used 155 times
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