Whip-tailed swimmers
The crossword clue "Whip-tailed swimmers" is answered by RAYS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RAYS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RAYS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RAYS
Every other clue in this collection answered by RAYS, most used first.
- Sunbeams - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
- Beams - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Tampa Bay team - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Beams of light - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Light beams - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Skates - used 16 times, most recently in 2007
- They're caught at the beach - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Beams of sunlight - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Sunbathers catch them - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Tropicana Field team - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Sun beams - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Tampa team - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Starfish arms - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Sunshine, slangily - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Tampa Bay baseballers - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Arms of a starfish. - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Mantas - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Tampa Bay baseball team - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tanners catch them - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- They're caught on the beach - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Whip - LASH, used 73 times
- Slippery swimmers - EELS, used 72 times
- "Whip It" band - DEVO, used 72 times
- Snaky swimmers - EELS, used 59 times
- Snakelike swimmers - EELS, used 56 times
- Slithery swimmers - EELS, used 44 times
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