African lilies
The crossword clue "African lilies" is answered by ALOES, a 5-letter entry. Used 39 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ALOES
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Used 39 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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