Clues for the word "INKY"
We've had 125 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 397 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 23, 2025.
Definition of inky
- a. - Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.
Referring Clues
- Black
- Very dark
- Like an octopus's defense
- Black and wet
- Blackened
- Pitch-dark
- Deep black
- Pitch-black
- Jet black
- Like a starless sky
- Black as night
- Like cuttlefish defenses
- Black as pitch
- Like a moonless night
- Like a desk blotter
- Like an old well
- Like printing presses
- Light-blue ghost in Pac-Man
- Ms. Pac-Man ghost
- Like presses
- ___ cap (kind of mushroom)
- Pac-Man ghost
- Very black
- Dark and murky
- Like a stained shirt pocket, maybe
- Pitch black
- Jet
- Blacker than black
- Profoundly dark
- Turquoise ghost in Pac-Man
- Like a squid's squirt
- Like an octopus' defense
- Light blue ghost in Pac-Man
- Like a nerd's shirt pocket, stereotypically
- One Pac-Man ghost
- Blue ghost in "Pac-Man"
- One of Pac-Man's pursuers
- Jet-black
- Like ocean depths
- Ghost in Pac-Man
- One of the Pac-Man ghosts
- _cap mushroom
- Like an old print job
- Like printers' fingers
- Like the ocean around SEALAB
- Like some smudges
- One "Pac-Man" ghost
- Extremely black
- Cyan-colored Pac-Man ghost
- Dauntingly dark
- Like printing-press smudges
- Like a newspaper press
- Blue Pac-Man ghost
- One of the Pac-Man characters
- Appropriate name for a pet squid?
- Like a leaky fountain pen
- Bluish black
- Like pen smudges
- Like octopus secretions
- ___ cap (mushroom)
- Like a squid's defense
- ___ wretch: newspaper writer
- Dark black
- Dark, like a starless sky
- A ghost in "Pac-Man"
- Like the sky on a moonless night
- Stained, like a pressman's apron
- Hard to see through
- Extremely dark
- Blue ghost in Pac-Man
- Dark in color
- Stained with writing fluid
- Dark
- Like an octopus' secretion
- Light blue Pac-Man pursuer
- Only ghost not mentioned by name in "Pac-Man Fever"
- Like 52-down
- Like a defensive squid?
- Like squid spray
- Like cartoonists' hands
- Like new stamp pads
- Black rhyme for Greene's coloured boy
- Squid-like, powerless finger
- Like the ocean depths
- Dark, like the ocean depths
- Dark, like ocean depths
- Coloured black
- Keep yellow tops after wearing black
- Certain Pac-Man ghost
- Stained with printing fluid
- Stained, like a printer's apron
- Like a squid's discharge
- Stained, like a newsie's fingers
- Like a printer's apron, often
- Black, like an octopus's secretion
- Like a blotter
- Like a printmaker's hands
- Very dark or stained with printing fluid
- Like a defensive octopus?
- Like squid squirts
- Like defective pens
- Like the water around a freaked-out squid
- Like a cuttlefish's discharge
- Jet black, as a squid's defense
- Like many a stained shirt pocket
- Stained by a pen, say
- In Kentucky, it means dark
- Name for a pet octopus
- Dark and wet, possibly
- A Pac-Man character
- Ghost in the Pac-Man game
- Stained, in a way
- Like fingers after holding a newspaper
- Name for a plush octopus
- Like fingers stained by a pen
- Like a stamp pad
- Like a messy calligrapher's hands
- Like a messy caricaturist's hands
- Like a leaky pen
- Completely black, as the sky
- Like a calligrapher's fingers, at times
- Cyan Pac-Man ghost
- Like water around a scared squid
- Pac-Man ghost with the shortest name
- Like water surrounding a startled cuttlefish, maybe
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 30, 2025
- LA Times - November 30, 2025
- New York Times - November 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 17, 2025
- Daily American - November 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 27, 2025
- Daily American - October 03, 2025
- LA Times - September 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 24, 2025
- Daily American - July 15, 2025
- Daily American - July 12, 2025
- New York Times - July 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 21, 2025
- LA Times - June 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 16, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 13, 2025
- Daily American - April 10, 2025
- Daily American - March 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 07, 2025
- Daily American - February 04, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 22, 2024
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