Kind of illusion
The crossword clue "Kind of illusion" is answered by OPTICAL, a 7-letter entry. Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OPTICAL
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OPTICAL answer page.
Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OPTICAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by OPTICAL, most used first.
- ___ illusion - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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