Shankar's strings
The crossword clue "Shankar's strings" is answered by SITAR, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SITAR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SITAR answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SITAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by SITAR, most used first.
- Shankar's instrument - used 62 times, most recently in 2022
- Indian instrument - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Indian lute - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Ravi Shankar's instrument - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Raga instrument - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Ravi's instrument - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Stringed instrument - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Hindu guitar. - used 22 times, most recently in 1981
- Long-necked instrument - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- "Norwegian Wood" instrument - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Indian stringed instrument - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Long-necked lute - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Lute's cousin - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Pear-shaped instrument - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Instrument of India - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Lute of India - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Plucked instrument - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Anoushka Shankar's instrument - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Stringed instrument of India - 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.
- Toys on strings - YOYOS, used 35 times
- One of the strings - VIOLA, used 14 times
- Sneakers' strings - LACES, used 13 times
- Some strings - CELLI, used 12 times
- Heavenly strings - HARPS, used 10 times
- It has strings attached - APRON, used 9 times
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