Shankar's instrument
The crossword clue "Shankar's instrument" is answered by SITAR, a 5-letter entry. Used 62 times across 31 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
SITAR
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Used 62 times across 31 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SITAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by SITAR, most used first.
- Indian instrument - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Indian lute - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Ravi Shankar's instrument - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Raga instrument - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Ravi's instrument - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Stringed instrument - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Hindu guitar. - used 22 times, most recently in 1981
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