Etcher's need
The crossword clue "Etcher's need" is answered by ACID, a 4-letter entry. Used 40 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ACID
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ACID answer page.
Used 40 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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