Herring
The crossword clue "Herring" is answered by SPRAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1945. 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
SPRAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPRAT answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1945. 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
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ALEWIFE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for SPRAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPRAT, most used first.
- Small herring - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- "Jack __ could eat no fat..." - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack who ate no fat - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Dieter of rhyme - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
- Jack of rhyme - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Jack who could eat no fat - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack of nursery rhymes - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Lean eater of rhyme - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Nursery rhyme dieter - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack in a nursery rhyme - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Little fish. - used 9 times, most recently in 1967
- Small fish - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Nursery rhyme Jack - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Young herring - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
- Jack with a low-fat diet - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Nursery rhyme character. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
- Nursery rhyme name - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Fat eschewer of rhyme - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Jack who avoided fat - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Jack who eschewed fat - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Lake herring - CISCO, used 9 times
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