Mortarboard adornment
The crossword clue "Mortarboard adornment" is answered by TASSEL, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. 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
TASSEL
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TASSEL answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TASSEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by TASSEL, most used first.
- Fez feature - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Mortarboard attachment - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Graduation cap dangler - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Graduation cap attachment - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Mortarboard feature - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Mortarboard dangler - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
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- Chin adornment - GOATEE, used 10 times
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