The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word QUILLS which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2018.
Porcupine's protection crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| QUILLS | 33 % | 6 |
| SPINE | 33 % | 5 |
| SPINES | 33 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Porcupine's protection
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- porcupine
- spiny
- spine
- panoply
- quill
- hedgehog
- tree
- bison
- rodent
- erethizontidae
- family erethizontidae
- family hystricidae
Crossword Answer definitions
QUILLS noun- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- A pen made from a feather.
- Any pen.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The pen of a squid.
- The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- The tube of a musical instrument.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result QUILLS
More clues leading to the result SPINE
- Backbone
- Book back
- Small piano
- What cowards lack
- Back line?
- Book part that displays a title
- Title holder
- Bookbinding piece
- Bookbinder's back
- Coward's lack