Kind of acid
The crossword clue "Kind of acid" is answered by NITRIC, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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NITRIC
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NITRIC answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NITRIC
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- __ acid - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
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