Layer of the eye
The crossword clue "Layer of the eye" is answered by UVEA, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
UVEA
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UVEA answer page.
Used 20 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for UVEA
Every other clue in this collection answered by UVEA, most used first.
- Eye part - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
- Eye layer - used 137 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of the eye - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Iris holder - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
- Iris layer - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Colored part of the eye - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Iris's place - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Optic layer - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Iris locale - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
- Eye feature - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
- Eye layer containing the iris - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Pigmented eye layer - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Layer of the iris - used 12 times, most recently in 1984
- Eye part containing the iris - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Eyeball layer - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Where the iris is - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Pigmented part of the eye - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- The eyes have it - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Eye area - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Part of the eyeball - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Part of the iris - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Pigmented peeper part - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Place for an iris - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Pigmentary layer of the eye. - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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