Comet part
The crossword clue "Comet part" is answered by TAIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TAIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAIL answer page.
Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TAIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by TAIL, most used first.
- Follow - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Shadow - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
- Follow closely - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Kite part - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Manx cat's lack - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Peacock's pride - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Kite attachment - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- End of a kite - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Plane part - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Comet feature - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Follow furtively - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Lobster serving - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
- Plane section - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Follow, as a suspect - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Follow secretly - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Caudal appendage - used 9 times, most recently in 2002
- Mermaid feature - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Cow's fly swatter - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Kite stabilizer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Scut - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
- Kite feature - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Detective, at times - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Donkey's need, in a party game - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Follow stealthily - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Lobster part - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Manx's lack - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Rear of a plane - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Part of Q.E.D. - ERAT, used 477 times
- Part of A.D. - ANNO, used 301 times
- Part of QED - ERAT, used 274 times
- Molecule part - ATOM, used 269 times
- Eye part - IRIS, used 242 times
- Hammer part - PEEN, used 208 times
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