Black playing card
The crossword clue "Black playing card" is answered by SPADE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SPADE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPADE answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPADE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPADE, most used first.
- Digging tool - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Garden tool - used 60 times, most recently in 2025
- One in a black suit - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Black card - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Garden shovel - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Bogart role - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Gardener's tool - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Gardening tool - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Small shovel - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Earth mover - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Trench-making tool - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Black suit - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Part of a black suit - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Card in a black suit - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Digger's tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Hammett hero - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- "The Maltese Falcon" sleuth - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Playing marble - AGATE, used 93 times
- Black-and-white cookies - OREOS, used 66 times
- Black bird - RAVEN, used 54 times
- Black cattle breed - ANGUS, used 47 times
- Black tea - PEKOE, used 43 times
- Low card - DEUCE, used 33 times
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