Gill openings
The crossword clue "Gill openings" is answered by SLITS, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLITS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLITS answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLITS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLITS, most used first.
- Narrow cuts - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Narrow openings - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Thin cuts - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Openings. - used 9 times, most recently in 1968
- Skirt features - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Long cuts - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Buttonholes, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Narrow apertures - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Narrow incisions - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Thin openings - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Uses a letter opener - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Skin openings - PORES, used 48 times
- Fence openings - GATES, used 21 times
- Job openings - SLOTS, used 17 times
- Tiny skin openings - PORES, used 15 times
- Tiny openings - PORES, used 13 times
- Eyelike openings - OCULI, used 10 times
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