Ink

The answer

TAT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAT answer page.

Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 4 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.

• TATS (23 uses in xd)
• SIGN (11 uses in xd)
• TATTOO (7 uses in xd)
• INDIA (5 uses in xd)
• SAC (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for TAT

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

• Make lace - used 259 times, most recently in 2026
• Tit for ___ - used 189 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of ink - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Body art, for short - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a shuttle - used 53 times, most recently in 2018
• Skin art, for short - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Sylvester, to Tweety - used 44 times, most recently in 2024
• Bit of body art - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of body art, for short - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Rat-a-___ - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Skin pic - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Gunny cloth. - used 15 times, most recently in 1968
• "I tawt I taw a puddy ___" - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
• Bit of body art, informally - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Create lace - used 14 times, most recently in 2009
• Body art, briefly - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Do lacework - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Bit of body ink - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Feline, to Tweety - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Make doilies - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Pic on a pec - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Work with a shuttle - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Bit of body art, slangily - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Make edging - used 10 times, most recently in 1973
• Part of an exchange - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Bit of body art, briefly - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Machine gun syllable - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Pic from a parlor - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Piece of body art, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Work on a doily - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
• Art on an arm, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Bit of ink, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Body image, briefly - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Body pic - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Make a doily - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Pec pic - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Work on lace - used 8 times, most recently in 1978
• Body art, informally - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Ink spot? - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• What Tweety tawt he taw - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Arm art, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Pec pic, perhaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Rat-a-___ (drum sound) - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Skin art, slangily - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Squid's ink holder - SAC, used 16 times
• Ink-filled tool - PEN, used 8 times
• Ink holder - PEN, used 7 times

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