Ancient foe of Athens

The answer

SPARTA

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARTA answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SPARTA

Every other clue in this collection answered by SPARTA, most used first.

• Rival of Athens - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Peloponnesian War victor - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Athens rival - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Lacedaemon - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
• Ancient Greek city - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Ancient rival of Athens - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Ancient Greek military power - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Athens' ancient rival - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Ancient Athens rival - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Ancient Greek city-state - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Greek city-state - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
• Ancient capital of Laconia - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• "In the Heat of the Night" setting - used 6 times, most recently in 2011

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• Ancient Greek state - ATTICA, used 17 times
• Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt - SCARAB, used 17 times
• Ancient Jewish ascetic - ESSENE, used 16 times

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