Dull pain
The crossword clue "Dull pain" is answered by ACHE, a 4-letter entry. Used 194 times across 41 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 34 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
ACHE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ACHE answer page.
Used 194 times across 41 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 34 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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