Marine snail
The crossword clue "Marine snail" is answered by WHELK, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1962. 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
WHELK
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WHELK answer page.
Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 6 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.
- NERITA (2 uses in xd)
- COWRY (1 uses in xd)
- MITRA (1 uses in xd)
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