El __: ocean current

The answer

NINO

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NINO answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NINO

Every other clue in this collection answered by NINO, most used first.

• El ___ - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• El ___ (weather phenomenon) - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Spanish boy - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Barcelona boy - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Boy, in Barcelona - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Baja boy - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Bolivian boy - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Composer Rota - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Boy, in Spanish - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Chihuahua child - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Lad of La Mancha - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Boy, in Bolivia - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Boy, in Bogotá - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Tenor Martini - used 8 times, most recently in 1988
• Film composer Rota - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• El ___ (Pacific current) - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• El ___ (weather factor) - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Madre's boy - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Muchacho - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Spanish child - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Spanish for "boy" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• On the ocean - ASEA, used 194 times
• Ocean motion - TIDE, used 137 times
• Swirling current - EDDY, used 53 times
• Circular current - EDDY, used 47 times
• Ocean predator - ORCA, used 47 times
• Land in the ocean - ISLE, used 45 times

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