Answer: INKY
INKY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 90 times.
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
 - Stained, like a newsie's fingers
 - Like a printer's apron, often
 - Like a blotter
 - Like a printmaker's hands
 - Like squid squirts
 - Like defective pens
 - Like many a stained shirt pocket
 - Stained by a pen, say
 - Name for a pet octopus
 - Stained, in a way
 - Like fingers after holding a newspaper
 - 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 water around a scared squid
 - Pac-Man ghost with the shortest name
 - Like water surrounding a startled cuttlefish, maybe
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 29, 2025
 - New York Times - July 03, 2025
 - LA Times - June 16, 2025
 - USA Today - October 11, 2024
 - New York Times - December 30, 2023
 - New York Times - November 05, 2023
 - USA Today - October 05, 2023
 - USA Today - July 19, 2023
 - LA Times - June 04, 2023
 - New York Times - February 04, 2023
 - LA Times - October 05, 2022
 - New York Times - September 10, 2022
 - LA Times - August 22, 2022
 - New York Times - January 27, 2022
 - USA Today - January 18, 2022
 - USA Today - August 12, 2021
 - New York Times - August 05, 2021
 - LA Times - July 07, 2021
 - Universal - May 22, 2021
 - LA Times - May 04, 2021
 
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