Long, narrow inlet
The crossword clue "Long, narrow inlet" is answered by RIA, a 3-letter entry. Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RIA
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RIA answer page.
Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for RIA
Every other clue in this collection answered by RIA, most used first.
- Narrow inlet - used 199 times, most recently in 2026
- Inlet - used 184 times, most recently in 2024
- Estuary - used 113 times, most recently in 2026
- River inlet - used 87 times, most recently in 2025
- Creek - used 78 times, most recently in 2008
- Coastal inlet - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Small inlet - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Narrow waterway - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Coastline feature - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Fjord relative - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Narrow coastal inlet - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Narrow estuary - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Spanish estuary - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Drowned valley - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Estuary: Span. - used 7 times, most recently in 1961
- Fjord's kin - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Wedge-shaped inlet - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
Related clues
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- Long, long time - EON, used 302 times
- Long time - EON, used 270 times
- Very long time - EON, used 212 times
- Actress Long - NIA, used 148 times
- Long. crosser - LAT, used 116 times
- Long, long __ - AGO, used 91 times
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