"There ought to be ___!"
The crossword clue ""There ought to be ___!"" is answered by ALAW, a 4-letter entry. Used 58 times across 39 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus.
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Used 58 times across 39 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ALAW
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALAW, most used first.
- "There oughta be ___!" - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
- What there oughta be - used 46 times, most recently in 2016
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