Black-and-white whales
The crossword clue "Black-and-white whales" is answered by ORCAS, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORCAS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORCAS answer page.
Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ORCAS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORCAS, most used first.
- Killer whales - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
- Ocean predators - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Black-and-white predators - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Marine predators - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Black-and-white mammals - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Black-and-white sea predators - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Dangerous whales - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Black-and-white swimmers - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Some whales - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- "Wolves of the sea" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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