Ice cream pattern
The crossword clue "Ice cream pattern" is answered by SWIRL, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SWIRL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SWIRL answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SWIRL
Every other clue in this collection answered by SWIRL, most used first.
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