Pertaining to punishment
The crossword clue "Pertaining to punishment" is answered by PENAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1953. 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
PENAL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PENAL answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PENAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by PENAL, most used first.
- Kind of code - used 46 times, most recently in 2023
- Kind of colony - used 42 times, most recently in 2015
- Of punishment - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Punishment-related - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Punitive. - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
- ___ code - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Prison-related - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of code or colony - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
- Word before code or colony - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Jail-related - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ colony - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Disciplinary - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Type of colony - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Kind of colony or code - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Type of code - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Correctional - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Prison-based - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Serving to punish - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Type of colony or system - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Word with code or colony - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Pertaining to birth - NATAL, used 34 times
- Pertaining to bees - APIAN, used 28 times
- "Crime and Punishment" heroine - SONYA, used 21 times
- Pertaining to birds - AVIAN, used 21 times
- "____ and Punishment" - CRIME, used 16 times
- Pertaining to the kidneys - RENAL, used 16 times
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