Smart ___
The crossword clue "Smart ___" is answered by ALEC, a 4-letter entry. Used 52 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ALEC
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Used 52 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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