Ancient characters
The crossword clue "Ancient characters" is answered by RUNES, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1984. 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
RUNES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUNES answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RUNES
Every other clue in this collection answered by RUNES, most used first.
- Ancient letters - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Old letters - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Old characters - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Ancient Mexican - AZTEC, used 78 times
- Ancient Greek region - IONIA, used 59 times
- Ancient Greek colony - IONIA, used 58 times
- Ancient artifact - RELIC, used 49 times
- Ancient marketplace - AGORA, used 49 times
- Ancient - OLDEN, used 46 times
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