Slow one
The crossword clue "Slow one" is answered by SNAIL, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2001; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SNAIL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SNAIL answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2001; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 2 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 SNAIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by SNAIL, most used first.
- Slow mover - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Slowpoke - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Escargot - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Symbol of slowness - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Slow-moving mollusk - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Epitome of slowness - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Garden gastropod - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ mail - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Sluggard - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
- Slow critter - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Slow-moving creature - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Aquarium scavenger - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Exemplar of slowness - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Kind of mail - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Mobile home dweller? - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Slow gastropod - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Slow-moving creature in a shell - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Spiral-shelled mollusk - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- One more time - AGAIN, used 115 times
- Indian, for one - OCEAN, used 70 times
- Be of one mind - AGREE, used 68 times
- Bikini, for one - ATOLL, used 66 times
- Slow tempo - LENTO, used 65 times
- One way to read - ALOUD, used 57 times
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