Garden shovel
The crossword clue "Garden shovel" is answered by SPADE, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 6 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 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 6 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
- 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 playing card - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- 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.
- Garden pest - APHID, used 86 times
- Madison Square Garden, e.g. - ARENA, used 67 times
- Garden starters - SEEDS, used 33 times
- Rose garden pest - APHID, used 29 times
- Madison Square Garden, for one - ARENA, used 27 times
- Garden tool - EDGER, used 24 times
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