Helvetica lack
The crossword clue "Helvetica lack" is answered by SERIF, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SERIF
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SERIF answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 1 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 SERIF
Every other clue in this collection answered by SERIF, most used first.
- Font flourish - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Letter stroke - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Letter flourish - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Letter embellishment - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Printing flourish - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Calligraphy line - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Sans-___ font - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Line on a letter - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Calligraphy stroke - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Font feature - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Letter line - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Calligraphy detail - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Letter feature - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Stroke on a letter - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Font embellishment - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Line of text? - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Printing stroke - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Sans __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Sans -- (font style) - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Sans ___ (type style) - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Font similar to Helvetica - ARIAL, used 22 times
- Helvetica look-alike - ARIAL, used 15 times
- Coward's lack - SPINE, used 14 times
- Ninny's lack - SENSE, used 13 times
- Coward's lack - NERVE, used 12 times
- Bald tire's lack - TREAD, used 11 times
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